PENGETAHUAN REMAJA PUTRI TENTANG DAMPAK PERNIKAHAN DINI PADA KESEHATAN REPRODUKSI DI SMA BUDAYA BANDAR LAMPUNG

Abstract

Early marriage or young marriage is a marriage performed by a partner or one of their partners is still categorized as a teenager under 19 years. The practice of early marriage is most prevalent in Africa and Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asia, data shows that around 10 million children under the age of 18 are married, while in Africa an estimated 42% of the child population is married before they are 18 years old. Indonesia is a country with the highest percentage of marriages in the world (ranking 37), and the second highest in ASEAN after Cambodia. The 2013 Riskesdas data showed that the prevalence of the age of first marriage between 15-16 years was 41.9 percent. Nationally, the average age at first marriage in Indonesia is 19.70 percent / year. Lampung BKKBN noted, throughout 2015, as many as 9675 people married underage or under the age of 20 or early marriage. This study aims to determine the knowledge of young women about the impact of early marriage on reproductive health at Bandar Lampung Cultural High School. Type of quantitative research, descriptive research design, population of 108 people, sample of 93 people, sampling by random sampling technique, data analysis using univariate analysis. The results of the univariate analysis found that young women had knowledge about the impact of early marriage on reproductive health, namely 50 respondents (53.8%) in the good category, 43 respondents (46.2%) in the poor category. Young women's knowledge of the impact of early marriage on reproductive health in a good category of 53.8%.