Educational Video on Adolescents’ Knowledge and Behavior in The Efforts of Preventing Early Marriage in the Working Area of Mabelopura Public Health Center

Early marriage in Indonesia is increasing from year to year. This problem has an impact on the quality of children, family, family harmony and divorce. Likewise, it is the cause of children dropping out of school. Central Sulawesi is in the 5th highest national early marriage with a percentage of 12.65% of early marriage cases. The purpose of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of early marriage education videos on adolescents' knowledge and attitudes in efforts to prevent early marriage in the Health Center, Mabelopura. This research is a quantitative-research using the Quasi Experimental method with a One Group Pretest-Posttest design. The population in this study is all adolescents in the Health Center, Mabelopura with a sample of 91 adolescents. The sampling technique uses Probability Sampling, namely the Purposive Sampling technique. The analysis used is the Wilcoxon Test with a confidence level of 95%. The results of the analysis showed that the average pretest adolescent knowledge variable was 9.59 and posttest was 18.41 with a p value of 0.000, and the pretest adolescent attitude variable was 66.01 and posttest was 78.04 with a p value of 0.000. The conclusion in this study is that early marriage video education is effective and influential in increasing the knowledge and attitude of adolescents in efforts to prevent early marriage in the Health Center, Mabelopura. It is hoped that education through videos can be used as an educational medium for teenagers in various regions.