Introduction: In adolescence, there are various changes, both physical, cognitive, and social, which cause adolescents vulnerable to reproductive health problems. The family as the closest part of adolescence is one of the main factors in improving adolescent reproductive health and has a very important role in providing sexual and reproductive health information to adolescents. Objective: to find out the communication between parents and teenagers about sexual and reproductive health. Method: The design used is a systematic review. Journal searches are conducted on online databases such as PubMed, Elsevier, Science Direct, and Google Scholar. Journals, articles, and literature reviews were found using keywords parent-adolescent communication, sexual and reproductive health, adolescents. Results: A total of 7 journal articles selected from 28 articles showed that communication between parents and adolescents regarding reproductive and sexual health was very important to do. However, the implementation is still lacking due to various factors such as lack of parental knowledge, parents lacking in communication skills, the presence of shame, and cultural influences that consider reproductive and sexual health issues as taboo to be discussed with adolescents. Discussion: The communication of parents and adolescents regarding reproductive and sexual health has been widely investigated in various countries. Interventions are needed to improve the quality of communication between parents and adolescents through increasing the knowledge of parents of these adolescents.
Stunting is one of the chronic nutritional problems which is still an important problem in Indonesia. Lack of nutritional intake in the first 1000 days of life or lack of nutritional intake for a long time is the main cause of stunting. Indonesia is one of the developing countries with more than half the number of children experiencing stunting. The prevalence of stunting is in position 115 out of 151 countries in the world. Banjar Regency is ranks third out of 13 regencies/cities in South Kalimantan which is children experiencing stunting at 48.2%. Through community service activities by conducting stunting prevention and control programs is hoped that there will be an increase in community knowledge and attitudes in the family environment. The focus targets of this community service activity are families who have children under five and or couples of childbearing age in Sungai Tuan Ilir Village. The program is carried out in three stages, namely providing health education, interpersonal communication (KAP), and stunting prevention campaigns. The activities were carried out well according to the program planning that was made as evidenced by the increase in community knowledge and attitudes both during the mass counseling process and during KAP activities and stunting prevention campaigns in the family sphere.
The adolescent age group as a population at risk of experiencing reproductive health problems requires support and attention from the family. Information support and emotional support for adolescents are the main focus of families in overcoming adolescent reproductive health problems. This study aims to determine the relationship of family informational and emotional support to the behavior of using reproductive health services by adolescents. This study uses a descriptive correlational research design with a cross sectional approach with a sample size of 370 with random sampling method. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between informational and emotional support from the family and the behavior of using reproductive health services (p-value 0.000). Behavior improvement in the use of health services needs to be improved with the support of knowledge and attention from parents of adolescents, as well as the active role of health workers in efforts to introduce adolescent reproductive health services.
The development of circumcision techniques in the world, including Indonesia, is very rapid. One of them is super ring modern circumcision with free needle injection anesthesia. Efforts to improve the skills of health workers such as doctors and nurses through training are carried out in collaboration with LKP Sunat Modern Indonesia. The methods used are question and answer lectures, demonstrations, FGDs, and the practice of performing circumcision on patients directly with the assistance and supervision of the instructor. The result of this activity is an increase in understanding and skills in performing super ring modern circumcision with free needle injection anesthesia, and producing entrepreneurs in this field.
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