Abstract
The percentage of adolescent premarital sexual intercourse increases every year. SMS is one of the important medias for
health promotion including adolescent health reproduction such as premarital sexual intercourse. This research was aimed to determine the effect of giving information through SMS on the increase of the adolescent attitude on the premarital sexual intercourse of the senior high school students. This research was categorized into quasi-experimental research which had
a pre-posttest with a control group design conducted on 35 respondents both the experimental group and the control group. This
research was conducted at SMAN 1 Pundong as the experiment group given intervention through SMS and SMAN 1 Kretek
as the control group was given intervention through leaflets. The instrument used was questionnaire. The data analysis used was the
statistic parametric with significance-0,05. The result of pretest showed that the average score of the experiment group was
124,1 while the control group's average score was 119,97. The result of the posttest showed that the average score of the experiment
group was 131,6 while the control group's average score was 119,90. Thus, it could beconcluded that there was a significant
difference between pretest and posttest. The attitude of the experiment group increased up to 7,54 while the control group's
attitude increased only up to 0,23. The result gap of the two groups was 7,77. The result of the independent sample t-testwas the
scoreof p-value 0,0004816 and 95% confidence interval was 3,5432-11,9997. The research concluded that there were some
effects of giving information through SMS on the increase of the attitude on premarital sex of X grade students of SMAN 1
Pundong year 2014.
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