Communication, Information, and Education on Self-Awareness about Marriage Age Maturation among Adolescent Girls
Abstract
Indonesia has the highest rate of early marriage in the world, according to a UNICEF
study, placing 15th out of 63 countries. Child marriage will make it much harder for
Indonesia to obtain a high human development index and meet sustainable development
goals.
To
determine
whether
Communication,
Information,
and
Education (CIE)
regarding
maturing
age
at
marriage
through
the
Interprofessional
Education
(IPE)
approach
affected
the
students'
self-awareness.
An
experimental
study
with
one
group
pretest
and
post-test
design
was
conducted
on 121
participants.
They
were
selected
using
random
sampling
from
16-30th
August 2021 in
Hidayatul
Mubtadiat
Islamic
boarding
school,
Puri
sub-district,
Mojokerto
district,
East
Java
province,
Indonesia.
The
intervention
group
attended a
workshop
led
by a
religious
leader,
psychologist,
and
maternity
nursing
lecturer,
completed
by
a
follow-up
program.
The
data
was
collected
using
the
self-awareness
questionnaire
modified
from
the
Situational
Self-Awareness
Scale
(SSAS).
IBM
SPSS
(v.28)
was
used
to
analyze
the
data,
including
statistical
tests
such
as
descriptive
statistics
and a
paired
t-test
for
comparing
the
mean
scores. A 5%
level
of
significance
was
considered.
After
interventions,
there
was a
significant
self-awareness
score
improvement
(p-value 0.000
and T
value = -15.9).
The
participants
had
self-awareness
in
the
good
category
of
60.3 %.
Up
from 17.4
%
before
the
intervention
with a
change
in
mean +
standard
deviation
(SD)
pre-post 57.8 + 7.2
to 66.2 + 7.0.
Meanwhile,
the
number
of
participants
who
had
less
self-awareness
before
the
intervention (42.1%)
decreased
to 5%
after
the
intervention.
The
study's
findings
verified
the
effectiveness
of
the
CIE
strategy
to
enhance
self-awareness
among
adolescent
girls
using
the
IPE
method.
The
supply
of
CIE
on
the
maturity
of
marriage
age
with
an
interprofessional
education
approach
is
the
proper
step
to
raise
adolescents'
self-awareness in
the
right
decisionmaking
process.
So
that
they
can
avoid
early
marriage
deliberately
and
independently.