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Health Promoter is one of the health professionals in all health institutions. Different educational backgrounds, educational levels, competencies and functional positions can affect performance in the field. This study aims to analyze competence and its effect on the performance of health promoters. This type of research is an exploratory survey with a quantitative approach. The research population is health promoters in Central Java. The research sample was 114 people and selected by simple random sampling technique. Data analysis used simple linear regression. The results showed that there was a strong positive correlation between competence and performance (r = 0.712), the coefficient of determination (R square) was 0.507. This explains that 46.3% of performance is influenced by competence.

Early marriage is marriage in adolescent under the age of 19 who should not be ready to carry out marriage. Problems with early marriages also occur in Sukadana District. During the period of 2020, there were 283 early marriages. Early marriage can pose risks for both teenagers who marry early, children to be born, and have a risk of divorce. This study aims to determine the factors that influence early marriage in Sukadana District, East Lampung Regency in 2020. This type of research is analytic observational with a cross sectional design. The sample set is 166 respondents with simple random sampling technique. The instruments used are structured questionnaires and observation sheets. Data were analyzed using chi-square test and logistic regression test using SPSS version 20.0. Variables related to early marriage in this study were education level (p=0.004, RP=0.796), parents' occupation (p=0.000, RP=0.237), family income (p=0.001, RP=3.957), and level of knowledge (p=0.000, RP=9.913). While the factors that are not related to early marriage are culture (p=0.710, RP=1.373) and the role of peers (p=0.163, RP=0.604). Early marriage is one of the threats to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target. To overcome this, it is necessary to have cooperation from various parties to seek to prevent an increase in the incidence of early marriage as a preventive effort to reduce the disturbances and risks that can occur. due to early marriage.