(Jurnal) Youth Planning Program Through Peer Counselor Approach as An Effective Prevention of Early Wedding in Senior High School, Aluh-Aluh District

Abstract

Early marriage is a form of marriage bond where the age that should not be ready to carry out a marriage bond. Marriage is carried out too early, will cause various negative impacts, such as the impact on psychological conditions, biological impacts, impacts on reproductive health, the impact of maternal and infant mortality, and the impact of divorce. Early marriage has an impact, which is one of the impacts on health, early marriage will provide a dangerous risk to the mother either during pregnancy, childbirth or in the postpartum period. As a result of early marriage, teenagers during pregnancy and childbirth easily suffer from anemia, miscarriage, bleeding, prolonged labor and physical unpreparedness. Adverse effects on the health of the baby in the form of babies born with low weight (LBW), LBW incidence based on the age of the mother highest occurred in mothers giving birth with less than 20 years of age at 9.8%. This will make the baby grow into an unhealthy teenager. One of the efforts to overcome this problem is by conducting training and education activities for young people in Aluh-Aluh Subdistrict, precisely at SMAN 1 Aluh-Aluh. Therefore, we established a youth planning program with a peer counselor approach in efforts to prevent early marriage at SMAN 1 Aluh-Aluh, Aluh-Aluh District. This activity implements promotive and preventive efforts in overcoming the problems that can arise in young students and students especially in the case of early marriage and the consequences of early marriage both through health education and peer counselors. This activity is carried out with a peer approach model. In this model there are several programs that are carried out as a program to train and improve adolescent knowledge, namely educational activities, socialization and discussion, cadre training, listening counselors, and campaign against early marriage.