PENERAPAN E-PEER KONSELOR SEBAGAI UPAYA MENINGKATKAN PENGETAHUAN REMAJA TENTANG TRIAD KESEHATAN REPRODUKSI REMAJA DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

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Adolescent reproductive health namely sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and drugs is a youth problem that occurs today. Peer counselors as managers of youth information and counseling centers play an important role in increasing adolescent knowledge about reproductive health. Adolescents spend a lot of time with their peers and peer influence can have both positive and negative consequences. Peer counselor is a peer empowerment program to be able to provide information and knowledge of health and counseling for adolescents. At this time, with the Covid-19 pandemic still ongoing, access to face-to-face meetings is still limited so peer counselors are conducted online by utilizing currently developed technology. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of E-Peer Counselors on increasing adolescent knowledge about reproductive health during the pandemic. This research method was quantitative with quasy-experimental. The research design used is an one group pre-test post-test design. Bivariate analysis was carried out using non-parametric tests because the data were not normally distributed and tested with the Wilcoxon test to analyze the level of knowledge before (pretest) and after (posttest). The research was conducted in August-October 2021 at SMA Negeri 4 Denpasar. The sample was 30 students. The result was E-Peer Counselors increased adolescent knowledge about reproductive health during the Covid-19 pandemic (p<0,05).