201-204 K CORRELATION OF TEENAGERS’ KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE WITH THE PERCEPTION ABOUT THE TRANSMISSION OF HIV/AIDS

KORELASI PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP REMAJA DENGAN PERSEPSI TENTANG PENULARAN HIV / AIDS

Abstract

HIV/AIDS is one of the diseases which have gotten serious attention from many people. The
objective of the research was to find out the correlation between knowledge and attitude of teenagers, about
HIV/AIDS. The research used cross sectional design by distributing questionnaires to 55 students, and all of
them were used as the samples, using total sampling technique. Of 55 respondents, five respondents (9.1%)
had good knowledge, 24 respondents (43.6%) had moderate knowledge, and 26 respondents (47.3%) had bad
knowledge. Based on the result of chi square test, it was found that there was the correlation between
teenagers’ knowledge the transmission of HIV/AIDS at α = 0.1 and df = 1, the result of the computation was
obtained based on the significance value < 0.05 which indicated that Hon was rejected and if the significance
value > 0.05, it indicated that Ho was accepted; since the significance value < 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05), Ho was
rejected which indicated that there was the correlation between teenagers’ knowledge and the transmission of
HV/AIDS. The research is expected to be the means to increase knowledge and information to teenagers
about the perception of the transmission of HIV/AIDS.