THE EFFECT OF AUDIO VISUAL MEDIA ON IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH RIGHTS

Background: Social norms that assume talking about reproductive health is taboo and basic education often misunderstood can encourage adolescents to engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior. Lack of knowledge regarding the importance increase deviations social The number early marriages occurred Ponorogo increased by 50 percent range from January August 2020. purpose research was know effect audiovisual media on improving rights SMK N 1 Ponorogo. Methods: design this study quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest questionnaire control group design. total sample 84 respondents taken using a simple random sampling technique. population used class XII students met inclusion criteria, namely healthy state, willing be respondent. independent variable audio-visual dependent level knowledge. collected data were analyzed Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. Results: There an influence providing through increasing experimental after being given p value (0.001). Conclusions: Providing audio visual improve information adolescents. Keywords : knowledge, rights,