Abstract:
The habit of maintaining personal hygiene by washing hands is often
considered a trivial matter and a lack of attention by the community, especially
children. This is due to a lack of knowledge about how to wash hands properly
using soap and running water, so education is needed to increase knowledge and
correct hand washing actions. This study aims to determine the effect of health
education demonstration method on hand washing skills in school-age children. The
design of this study used a pre-experimental approach with a one group pretest-post
test design approach. The population in this study was all students in grades 4-6 at
Kaligoro Elementary School, Kutorejo District, Mojokerto Regency, totaling 44
children. The sampling technique of this research was total sampling. The sample
in this study was as many as 44 people. The research instrument used a
questionnaire in the form of an observation checklist. Data analysis used Wilcoxon
Signed Rank Test. The results suggested that the number of respondents who
experienced an increase in hand washing skills was 19 respondents (43.2%), while
the ties (fixed) were 25 respondents (56.8%) consisting of 7 respondents (15.9%)
still not skilled and 18 respondents remained skilled (40.9%). The results of the
Wilcoxon test analysis obtained a p value of 0.000 less than (0.05) so that H1 was
accepted, which means that there is an effect of health education demonstration
method on hand washing skills at Kaligoro Elementary School, Kutorejo District,
Mojokerto Regency. In the demonstration method, it is hoped that every step of
learning from the things that are demonstrated can be seen easily by school children
and through the correct procedure and the material being taught can also be
understood.
