Effect of Application of Counseling in Fertile Age Couple on the Improvement of Knowledge Contarception Implants

Abstract

The implant contraceptive counseling application presents a counseling menu consisting of videos and articles and has a chat feature to facilitate communication between counselor and client to obtain information about contraceptive implants. This study aims to determine the effect of providing counseling applications on the improvement of fertile age couples.

This research uses a combination method consisting of R & D and quasi-experiment one group pre-test-post test. This research was conducted in Padoang-doangan Village from February 2021 to March 2021. The sample was fertile aged couples aged 15-45 years who did not use family planning. All respondents were given questionnaires before and after being given the application to as many as 96 people. G. The data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test. 

Characteristics of the data were the dominant age of respondents aged 20-35 years. Most of the respondents' education was high school graduates and worked as IRTs with multiparity parity status. The percentage level of respondents' knowledge level with good category before being given the application was 10.4%, and there was an increase to 78.1% after being given the application. There is an effect of counseling application on increasing knowledge of Fertile Age Couples.