Enhancement of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Prevention Behavior With Role Play Among Elementary School Students

Abstract

Tuberculosis as an infectious disease is increasing in both the number of cases and severity of impact, and the number of cases among school-aged children is also increasing. Health promotion campaigns in schools have not been intensive, and there is poor behavior in tuberculosis prevention. Role play-playing roles actively with provided materials-is one health education method that can empower school-aged children to understand tuberculosis prevention. The purpose of this research is to identify the influence of role playing on tuberculosis transmission prevention in school-aged children. Study participants were 100 school-aged children. The study used quasi-experimental types of pre-test and post-test, with a control group. The t test results showed that improvement of tuberculosis prevention behaviors in the intervention group was higher than the control group (p value = .000). The role play method is recommended for health education for at least 6 sessions in school-aged children.

The group process in school-age children for tuberculosis prevention behaviour

“…Ethical clearance was obtained from the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia with the letter number No.43/UN2.F12.D/HKP.02.04/2018. This study uses an instrument that has been modified by researchers Supriatun, Nursasi, & Fitriyani in 2017 11 . Validity test results are obtained with the confidence of 95% (0.05), n = 40, so the r table value is 0.312.…”

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“…Moreover, the sample size in this study allowed minimal chances of underpowered analyses. Previous studies might have engaged nonrandomized designs such that mixed results were reported [12,21,22,[25][26][27][28][29][30]. Although most studies demonstrated that the health intervention is effective in improving health knowledge and health literacy, a quasi-randomized controlled trial in China found that the intervention's effect was not significant among primary school students [25].…”

“…Although most studies demonstrated that the health intervention is effective in improving health knowledge and health literacy, a quasi-randomized controlled trial in China found that the intervention's effect was not significant among primary school students [25]. Moreover, a number of studies adopted self-control, or observational designs, based on which solid conclusions are difficult to derive [3][4][5][26][27][28][29][30].…”