International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS)
Vol.6, No.1, March 2017, pp. 74~79
ISSN: 2252-8806, DOI: 10.11591/.v6i1.6535 74
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Needs Assesment of Adolescent Health Services
Khoiriyah Isni, Lina Handayani
Faculty of Public Health, Univesitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Jan 18, 2017
Revised Feb 20, 2017
Accepted Feb 27, 2017
Health problems surround the adolescent rises everytime, yet it does
unexcelled with their awareness or knowledge about that problems. The
adolescent health service that are poorly accesced by the adolescent become
the indicator that proves that the adolescent health services are not fully
known and utilized yet. The assesment of adolesccent health services need
has to be done so that it can be fully understand by the helper, target and
stakeholder. This study aimed to analyse the adolescent health service need
in Karang Bendo, Banguntapan, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The study
was conducted in 2016 using cross-sectional approach. The results revealed
that the level of adolsecent’s knowledge are still relatively poor: reproductive
health knowledge (44.1%), HIV/AIDS (41.2%), smoke (50%), drugs
(58.8%), and healthy lifestyle () (47.1%). The majority of respondents said
that they need health services about reproduction health (94.1%), HIV/AIDS
(91.2%), smoke (91.2%), drugs (88.2%) and healthy lifestyle (91.2%).
Keyword:
Adolescent
Healthy Lifestyle
HIV/AIDS
Need Assesment
Reproductive Health
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Corresponding Author:
Khoiriyah Isni,
Faculty of Public Health,
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan,
Jl. Prof Soepomo, Janturan, Warungboto, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Email: khoiriyah.isni@ikm.uad.ac.id
1. INTRODUCTION
Adolescent and their problems about reproduction health and sexuality, such as risked sexual
behaviour, smoking, drugs, and physical abuse with adolescents’s first pregnancy has been the main topic
this day [1]. Beside that, the healthy and clean lifestyle become the influence of adolescent problems.
Sexuality Study Center of Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia (PKBI) in Yogyakarta states that
there is a change of adolescent’s opinion about sex before marriage. About 3.4% of adolescents in
Yogyakarta confess that they are having sex once. Meanwhile, other information has been informed by Head
of Division senior and high education of Education, Youth and sports affairs Ministry of Yogyakarta, that in
2013 there are 325 cases of unwanted pregnancy happened to adolescents [2]. Beside that, HIV case in
Yogyakarta reach to 615 people, whereas 44% of them was adolescents in age 15-29 years old [3]. That case
was also happen in Bantul, where case of early-age marriage rises every year. It is caused by unwanted
pregnancy. In 2011,number of under age marriage cases is 145 cases, then descending to 108 cases in 2012,
and rise again in 2013 to 123 cases [4].
Another adolescent problems is smoking. Research to indicate that middle school student in Bantul
Yogyakarta that once try to smoking reach to 39.5%, now smoker 58.9% and the one who susceptible to
smoke reach to 11.6% [5]. Beside the problems above, concumption of alcohol and risk sexual behaviour
between the adolescents show that there is a strong relationship between consumption of alcohol and having
risk sexual decision (multipartner sexual) and the unconsistently of self defense behaviour like the usi of
condom [6].
Short of knowledge about health and health service also the right health information is the reason
that caused of adolescent’ problems mentioned above. Research that were done in 2 villages in Kamboja
show that 92% of adolescents will looking for reproductive and sexual health service in the future.