HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN TENTANG KESEHATAN REPRODUKSI DENGAN PERILAKU SEKSUAL REMAJA SMU DI KABUPATEN JEMBER (The Correlation between Reproductive Health Knowledge and Sexual Behaviour of Senior High School Adolescent in Jember Regency)

HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN TENTANG KESEHATAN REPRODUKSI
DENGAN PERILAKU SEKSUAL REMAJA SMU DI KABUPATEN JEMBER
(The Correlation between Reproductive Health Knowledge and Sexual Behaviour of
Senior High School Adolescent in Jember Regency)
Nur Widayati*
ABSTRACT
Globalization has given influence in demographic transition which placed
adolescent in big proportion. Natural change in adolescent can make serious problems, such
as free sex, abortion, unwanted pregnancy, and sexual transmitted disease. One of factors
that encourage free sex among adolescent is lack of reproductive health knowledge.
Limited counseling facilities and minimum role of parents and community can make
adolescent do not have correct information about reproductive health. It can make them
take wrong decision about their sexual behavior. The aim of this research was to identify
the correlation between reproductive health knowledge and sexual behaviour of senior high
school adolescent in Jember regency. This study was correlation analytic with cross
sectional approach. The population was students of Senior High School in Jember regency.
Sample was chosen by cluster sampling and total of respondent was 380. Data were
collected using questionnaire. The result of research shows that 67.4 % of respondents has
reproductive health knowledge in high category and 83.9 % has sexual behaviour in good
category. The statistical analysis with Spearman’s rho resulted r = 0.610 and p = 0.000
(p