Pemberdayaan Remaja Melalui Program Kesehatan “Youth Movement” untuk Mewujudkan Indonesia Sehat

Abstract

Kesehatan pada masa remaja merupakan hal penting bagi pertumbuhan dan perkembangan remaja itu sendiri. Pengabdian ini berupa program “Youth Movement” yaitu pelatihan kesehatan remaja yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilan remaja terhadap kesehatan diri. Program ini dilaksanakan selama 1 bulan di Desa Gamol, Paremono yang diikuti oleh remaja Desa Gamol. Permasalahan yang dihadapi masyarakat berupa banyaknya perilaku merokok dan kesadaran terkait kesehatan sangat kurang mengenai stimulasi tumbuh kembang remaja. Pengabdian ini dilakukan 3 tahapan yaitu persiapan, pelatihan, pelaporan. Pelatihan dan sosialisasi yang dilakukan adalah pelatihan kader, sosialisasi kesehatan meliputi Pendidikan Keterampilan Hidup Sehat (PKHS), kesehatan reproduksi bagi remaja, kesehatan jiwa, gizi remaja, deteksi dini kesehatan fisik dan jiwa dan dukungan kesehatan jiwa dan psikososial Covid-19 untuk orang sehat. Hasil yang didapatkan dari pengabdian ini adalah meningkatnya pengetahuan dan keterampilan remaja terhadap kesehatan diri. Rencana tindak lanjut yang dapat dilakukan oleh pemerintah adalah pendampingan dan peningkatan keterampilan berkelanjutan bagi kesehatan remaja di Desa Gamol, Paremono.

To Love Yourself: Psychological Approach to Predict Healthy Lifestyle Behaviour in Adolescents

“…These adolescents also tend to be able to accept and respond to conditions related to their health in a calm and balanced manner and can realize and understand the efforts to maintain and improve their health by implementing healthy lifestyle behaviors in everyday life. (Taylor, 2018;Astuti et al, 2020).…”

“…It can be explained in the following discussion. Various groups of youth activities related to health have the primary goal of improving, maintaining, and developing the overall health status of adolescents (Astuti, 2020). Adolescents who participate in a healthrelated youth activity group receive several positive benefits that help and facilitate them in carrying out healthy lifestyle behaviors with the existence of several activities in the healthrelated youth activity group.…”

“…It helps adolescents understand health issues that are useful to make health efforts for themselves (Pyas and Satlita, 2017). Youth activity groups provide alternative solutions to health-related problems, form support groups related to healthy living behavior in adolescents and their peers (Astuti, 2020), provide socialization, education, and assistance related to adolescent health (Astuti et al, 2020). In this group of activities, youth are fostered and educated regarding several health issues.…”

“…Through the Generation Planning (GenRe) program, BKKBN facilitates youth resilience in various regions with youth activity groups, namely the Youth Family Development group (BKR) and the Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) (Pyas and Satlita, 2017). The youth activity group aims to seek the health status of adolescents through various promotive and preventive efforts, namely by facilitating and assisting adolescents through the provision of support, education, motivation, coaching, communication, socialization, and skills training related to the application of healthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents (Astuti, 2020).…”

Empowerment of youth care about reproductive health in the covid-19 pandemic era

“…Selain itu, media sosial juga turut serta dalam mempengaruhi remaja dalam hal mendapatkan informasi kesehatan yang tidak benar atau hoax (Ministry of Health, 2018). Seperti pada pengabdian yang telah dilakukan di Magelang melalui program Youth Movement dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan dan ketrampilan remaja terhadap kesehatan diri (Astuti et al, 2020). Sosialisasi kesehatan reproduksi penting dilakukan untuk mencegah terjadinya gangguan kesehatan reproduksi (Rohmayanti, 2017).…”