The improvement students’ reproductive health knowledge using BASR BPP KRR learning material

Abstract

Abstract Based on studies reported the higher cases and improper sexual behaviour emerged due to the lower of health reproductive knowledge among teenagers and our representative survey that described a need for improving students health sexual knowledge in Kota Padang, we integrated promotion and prevention knowledge into learning material for students of senior high school (SMA). Furthermore, an experimental study has been conducted to measure the influence of learning material, called BASR BPP KRR toward adolescence’ health reproductive knowledge. Population consists of SMA students in Kota Padang. By using purposive sampling, around 179 SMA students are involved as the sample which represent three different categories of school academic ability level. Experimentation applies pre-test – post-test group only design, consist of two variable, learning material (independent variable) and reproductive health knowledge (dependent variable) which measured using multiple choice test. Then, the learning result (gain) analysed statistically by using t-test. The result showed the highest knowledge improvement on average were 28.7 by students’ of higher category school, 17.7 by middle category school, and 1.04by lower category school. The result shows BASR BPP KRR learning material significantly contributes to the improvement of higher academic level students. The increasing gain score also found toward middle academic level students, yet it is not statistically significant. Toward students’ of a lower academic level, BASR BPP KRR learning material does not increase the knowledge.