PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN PADA REMAJA TERHADAP STIGMA TENTANG ORANG DENGAN HIV/AIDS (ODHA) DI SMA SULTAN AGUNG KECAMATAN PUGER KABUPATEN JEMBER

Abstract

AIDS is a sign and symptom of a disease caused by HIV. The HIV virus is a virus which can decrease the immune system. AIDS is a condition of the onset of various diseases due to decreased immune system caused by the HIV virus. HIV infection to AIDS condition takes 5 to 10 years. AIDS has no cure till now. Avoiding transmission of HIV is the only way that can be used to prefent AIDS. Excessive fear of the HIV virus makes people stigmatized and steer away from PLWHA. Stigma is a bad look for others. Stigma arises due to the lack of correct knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Health education can be aplied to improve the knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Health education given to adolescence, because adolescence experiencing rapid cognitive development. Adolescent health education are expected to provide the correct knowledge about HIV/AIDS, so that teens are not stigmatized against PLWHA, and does not discriminate against them in the future. This study investigated the effect of health education on adolescents of stigma on PLWHA. It’s a pre-experimental study with static group comparison design. The samples are 80 samples divided into 40 samples in treatment group and 40 samples in control group. Data were acquired by questionnaire on stigma regarding PLWHA and analyzed by Mc Nemar and Chi Square (x2). The research results showed that the p value was 0.031 (0.031<α=0.05), so it can be concluded that there is influence of health education in adolescences on stigma regarding PLWHA.