Open AccessPemberdayaan Teman Sebaya Dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Gizi Remaja Kelebihan Berat Badan
Author(s) -
Retno Wahyuningsih
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jurnal gizi prima
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2656-2480
pISSN - 2355-1364
DOI - 10.32807/jgp.v5i2.204
Subject(s) - overweight , group counseling , treatment and control groups , statistical significance , psychology , health education , clinical psychology , family medicine , medicine , gynecology , public health , nursing , obesity
Background : Being overweight in adolescents needs to be addressed early so as not to become a health problem in the future. Adolescents who are obese can be treated with peer education. Methods : Quasi-experimental, randomized pre-post control group on 39 high school students aged 14-18 years were divided into two groups: 1) a treatment group with peer nutrition counseling, 2 control groups with classical counseling. Results : Research that differentiates the knowledge before and after peer counseling (treatment group) with a significance of 0.000 (p <0.05), and the control group (classical counseling) with a significance of 0.001 (p <0.05). Conclusion : Peer counseling can increase knowledge.