PENGARUH HEALTH EDUCATION DEMONSTRASI TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN CUCI TANGANPADA ANAK USIA SEKOLAH DI SDN KALIGORO KECAMATAN KUTOREJO KABUPATEN MOJOKERTO

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.