Abstract:
The problem of narcotics, psychotropic and other addictive substances (drugs) has become global problem. The effort to prevent that abuse keep on promote, one of them by improving knowledge and attitudes through counseling. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of counseling on knowledge and attitude of students in Handayani Senior High School of Pekanbaru. This study was pre experiment design with one group pretest-posttest. The samples were 103 students. The instrument of this study were questionnaire which was filled twice, before and after counseling. Analysis of the results were carried out using hypothesis test of pair categories variable. The results showed knowledge of students before counseling were good (42,7%), moderate (49,5%) and low (7,8%). After counseling, the knowledge of students became good (93,2%), moderate (5,8%), and low (1,0%). The attitude of students before counseling were positive category (90,3%) and negative (9,7%). After counseling, the attitude of students became positive (98,1%) and negative (1,9%). The results showed that there was difference of knowledge after counseling with the value of p=0,000 and there was difference of attitude after counseling with the value of p=0,008. The conclusion was the counseling influences on improving students knowledge and attitude about drugs in Handayani Senior High School of Pekanbaru
