Abstract

Teenagers are vulnerable to nutritional problems due to menstruation and body image that affects a teenager's perspective in choosing and consuming food. Therefore, it is important to conduct nutritional education with a peer approach to adolescent girls. The purpose of this activity is to determine the increase in knowledge after the implementation of nutritional education with the peer group method, the ability to determine nutritional status independently after the implementation of nutritional education, and to determine changes in the number of malnutrition after nutritional education was carried out on adolescent girls at SMP Negeri 1 Salahutu. Nutrition education has a positive effect on the knowledge of adolescent girls at SMP Negeri 1 Salahutu, Central Maluku, especially for the control group with normal nutritional status, although the treatment group did not show any changes. Teenagers began to independently learn how to determine their own nutritional status without assistance from a tutor. Based on the results of the nutritional status assessment, there was no change in nutritional status either at the beginning or the end of the activity. because the intervention implementation time was very short and changes in nutritional status took quite a long time, especially in their height index.