Peer-reviewed article
The Importance of The Community Skill Building Program (CSBP) Toward The Trend of Early Marriage of Adolescent Girls in Tasikmalaya City
Novi Enis Rosuliana, Tetik Nurhayati, Dewi Aryanti, Happy Bandana Biswas ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study tested a Community Skill Building Program (CSBP) with adolescent girls in Indonesia to reduce early marriage. Early marriage is common in Indonesia, driven by lack of knowledge, poverty, culture, and family history. The program showed a statistically significant reduction in girls' tendency toward early marriage. The research used a quasi-experimental design comparing girls who received the program with a control group.
Key points
- Early marriage affects many countries, with Indonesia among the ten with the highest rates of child marriage under 18
- The CSBP significantly reduced adolescent girls' tendency toward early marriage (p-value 0.000)
- Contributing factors to early marriage include lack of knowledge about impacts, low socioeconomic status, cultural factors, and family history
- The intervention involved community-level skills building to empower youth
- A quasi-experimental design with pre-post testing and a control group was used with 60 adolescent girls aged 10-18
Limitations
The report does not specify what skills were taught in the CSBP, the duration or intensity of the intervention, or whether effects persisted over time. The study is limited to one school in Tasikmalaya City, so findings may not generalize to other Indonesian settings or countries.
Abstract
Introduction: Early marriage occurs in many countries worldwide, especially in Indonesia, one of the ten countries with the highest number of child marriages under 18. Lack of knowledge about the impact of early marriage, poor socioeconomic level, culture, and family history of early marriage are influencing factors, so there is a need for an intensive program involving policymakers and empowering youth to reduce the incidence of early marriage. Therefore, the study aimed to determine the effect of the community skills building program (CSBP) on the tendency to early marriage in adolescent girls in Tasikmalaya.Methods: Research was quasi-experimental pre-post-test with a control group. The population is all adolescent girls in one of the public junior high schools in the city of Tasikmalaya, with a sample of 60 respondents who were selected using consecutive sampling. The inclusion criteria are adolescent girls aged 10-18 years, healthy and unmarried, for the exclusion criteria are adolescent girls who have moved domicile. Data retrieval using questionnaires on the tendency of early marriage contained 47 valid and reliable data. Data analysis used univariate and bivariate analysis with the Wilcoxon signed ranks test and Mann Whitney u test.Results: The results of data analysis showed that p-value 0.000 < p-value 0.05, which indicates a significant influence of the community skills building program (CSBP) on the tendency to early marriage in adolescent girls.Conclusions: It can be concluded that the application of the community skill-building program (CSBP) can reduce the tendency of early marriage in adolescent girls.
Findings the Hub has extracted
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- Intervention
- Community Skill Building Program (CSBP) - a youth empowerment program to build skills and knowledge about early marriage impacts
- Population
- Adolescent girls aged 10-18 years, unmarried, healthy, attending a public junior high school in Tasikmalaya City, Indonesia (n=60)
Key finding
The CSBP showed a statistically significant effect on reducing the tendency to early marriage (p-value 0.000 < 0.05)