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Relationship Between Social Media Access And Knowledge Of Low Birth Weight Babies (LBWB) Among Adolescents In Urban And Rural Areas (Preprint)


 BACKGROUND
 LBWB is birth weightofless than 2500 grams. New-born mortality is 50% higher withadolescent mothers.Adolescents who give birth at the age of 15–19 years have a higher risk of neonatal death. Nowadays, adolescents are easily accessedas theyuse social media in their daily lives.
 
 
 OBJECTIVE
 This study aims to determine the relationship between social media access and knowledge about LBW among high school adolescents in urban and rural areas.
 
 
 METHODS
 The research was conducted with 286 adolescents aged 16–18 in urban and rural areas in 13 senior high schools in Jakarta and one senior high school in Teluk Jambe, Karawang. It was a cross sectional study with logistic regression analyses
 
 
 RESULTS
 The research show that 108 (75.5%) of respondents in the urban area access social media and only 61 (42.7%) access social media in the rural area. Almost all the respondents had accessed information about LBW through the Instagram application. Of the adolescents in both the urban and rural areas, 265 (92.7%) had heard the term premature baby,while only 35 (24.5%) of respondents knew what the normal gestational age is.There is a significant relationship between social media access and knowledge of LBW (p- 0.01). The results show that urban and rural adolescents who access social media have a 4.11 times greater chance of having a good level of knowledge than adolescents who do not access social media.
 
 
 CONCLUSIONS
 There is a relationship between social media access and knowledge about LBWB.
