Adolescent Behavior in the Prevention of Drug Abuse at Vocational School Negeri 1 Labang Bangkalan

Abstract

Introduction: Prevention of drug abuse in adolescents can be done by providing health education and self-control training. Good self-control, adolescents will be able to control themselves from the influence of others and drug abuse will not occur. The ability to control themselves among adolescents is different, there are adolescents who have high self-control and there are adolescents who have low self-control. Objective: This study aims to determine the behavior of adolescents in preventing drug abuse at SMK Negeri Labang Bangkalan.  Material & Method: Using a questionnaire. After the data is collected, the data is processed with the stages of editing, coding, scoring, and tabulating. This study uses descriptive analysis in the form of frequency distribution tables and narratives. The ethics in this study are by using unformed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, and volunteerism. Result: Data on drug abuse behavior shows that the majority of students' knowledge about drug abuse is still lacking, amounting to 104 (88%), data on students' attitudes and actions are still lacking, amounting to 73 (47.4%) each. Conclution: The results of the study showed that adolescent behavior in drug abuse in 3 behavioral domains, namely knowledge, attitude and action, is in the poor category. Adolescent behavior in the knowledge domain is caused by adolescents who do not like to read books or listen to news about drugs so that adolescent knowledge about the dangers of drugs is still lacking.