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Mental health in Indonesia has so far been relatively neglected, even though the decline in productivity due to mental health disorders has been proven to have a real impact on the economy. Interpersonal communication is a scientific discipline that is seen as capable of realizing a person's mental health, because within the scope of its study, interpersonal communication is dialogical in nature. The dialogic nature is demonstrated through verbal communication in conversations that display direct feedback. This study uses all articles presented in the form of a literature review regarding "Promotion of Community Mental Health Using an Interpersonal Communication Approach". Based on the results of the literature review of the five journals analyzed, In essence, interpersonal communication is communication between a communicator and a communicant. This type of communication is considered the most effective for changing human attitudes, opinions or behavior due to a dialogical process. The dialogic nature is demonstrated through verbal communication in conversations that display direct feedback. The process of providing health information can be done using promotional media. The implementation of mental health promotion aims to be an important step in conveying a knowledge base that often arises so that it can be used in the form of effective practice in a regulation. Integrating improvement, prevention and management related to mental health problems will be very helpful in avoiding death, reducing the stigma associated with it. attached to someone with mental disorders and improve the economic conditions of society.

The lack of public knowledge about hypertension and information about drugs is an obstacle to success in the healing process. In line with this, Gebriet et al. (2017) explained that the level of knowledge and understanding of hypertensive patients regarding their disease can support the success of therapy so that the patient's blood pressure can be well controlled. The more patients understand their disease, the more aware patients will be in maintaining a lifestyle, regularly taking medication, and the level of patient compliance will also increase. Before conducting counseling, participants were given a pre-test to find out how much knowledge the community had about hypertension. During the implementation of the activity, participants paid attention enthusiastically and actively. This can be seen from the many questions from the participants and the right answers to questions from the community service team. At the end of the activity, participants conducted an evaluation. The results of the evaluation conducted from 10 participants showed that the pre-test results were 45% good, 55% fair value, the post-test results showed that 85% good 15% fair. So there has been an increase in knowledge from before and after counseling.

Reproductive health greatly determines the fertility of each individual. So it is important for someone to get the right and correct information about reproductive health. The current low level of awareness for healthy living behavior among adolescents and adults is an indicator of the need for correct and clear education, education, information or health promotion. The pocket book is an effective health promotion medium in an effort to create new behaviors. The purpose of this activity is to empower students in making pocket books as a medium for promoting reproductive health. The methods used in this activity are surveys and direct demonstrations. The target of this activity is 38 students of the Bachelor of Nursing study program. As a result of this community service activity, students are focused on making pocket books by paying attention to 3 points, namely the concept of youth, the concept of adolescent reproductive health and reproductive health problems in adolescents. This community service activity encourages students as a youth group to be able to participate actively, so that there is an increase in knowledge related to adolescent reproductive health.  

This service aims to provide socialization on the importance of health for older people to improve their quality of life. The method used in this service is descriptive quantitative with surveys, observations, and documentation. The subjects of this research were older adults located in Plamongan Hijau Housing, Pedurungan Kidul Village, Pedurungan District, Semarang City, with 20 elderly participants. The service results show that older people's knowledge about the health of the elderly has increased. Older people realize the importance of maintaining health through sports activities and a healthy lifestyle.