Yanti Setianti

Social Media and Reproductive Health - Communication Model of Adolescent Reproductive Health in Social Media

Communication via social media has created a positive output on information dissemination in every aspect of life, including health. One of the social media functions is to support development by empowering the public in taking care of their own health and welfare. It is essential to develop an effective communication model for disseminating information on adolescent reproductive health. The rapid growth in the number of health reproductive information portals in the social media, the circumstances are creating a high selectivity on the right and correct information needed for the adolescent based on the particular condition in each region.

Teachers' Problematic In Disseminating Information On Sex Education for Adolescents with Disabilities Through Mass Media

Schools, as education institutions have an important role in educational efforts, including education about health reproductive for their students. As a specialized educational institution for students with intellectual disability, SLB C has its own challenges in providing education about reproductive health. Whereas in SLB C equivalent to Junior High School level, the students have entered the age of puberty. On the other hand, the pattern of education conducted by the SLB cannot be made only to the student, but also to the parents of the students, because consider to the students with the intellectual disability has a different understanding ability. Some teachers are hoping to be able to disseminate information relating to the reproductive health education for teenagers with the intellectual disability through the mass media, to be accessible directly by parents who have children with special needs. However, there are a few problems still become the constraint, so that those activities have not been implemented optimally. Therefore, this research aims to do mapping with respect to the problems encountered by the school in conducting information dissemination concerning education about reproductive health education for disability teenagers through the mass media. The method used is descriptive qualitative with the techniques of data collection through interviews and observations. As for the results obtained include: technical barriers, consisting of scientific articles technical writing and article technical submissions to the mass media; as well as psychological barriers perceived by the teachers in information dissemination through the mass media.