| dc.description.abstract | The smoking prevalence among youth aged more than 15 years old
and so, raising 34,8 % of male and 2,7 % among those female one. Thus,
health education program is needed in order to improve youth knowledge
on the negative impacts of smoking. This study has been conducted among
students of Mexhanical Engineering school in Universitas Muhammadiyah
Yogyakarta. This study was a quasy-experimental study. The sample were 52
students who smoked and were divided into two groups, intervention and
control gruop. The sampling technique used was random sampling method.
Test analysis used Wilcoxon test and Mann-Whitney for attitude. Results :
The analysis test showed there was a significant effect of Self Help Group
(SHG) on attitude with p=0,000 (0,05). There was a differences on knowledge
between intervention and control groups with p=0,000 (p<0,05). This new
invention on health education method using social media, is important to be
developed. Facebook as one of the easy platform of social media to access, will
giving more benefit to the community in achieving distance health education | en_US |
