Effectiveness of Health Education in Covid-19 Prevention for Children Using Comic with Cultural Context Media

Introduction: COVID-19 was a new SARS variance identified in 2019 and declared the cause of the global pandemic in March 2020. Nowadays, the case has experienced a fluctuating case phase, along with the mutation of the SARS Cov-19 variant that has not stopped yet. Confirmation cases and deaths occur in various ages, including in children. Although the data on COVID-19 case in children is low, efforts to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 in children is needed. Objective(s): This study aims to identify the effect of health education efforts to prevent Covid-19 transmission through 3M (wearing a mask, washing hands and physical distancing) habituation which was carried out using comic media with a cultural context. Method(s): This study uses pre-experimental research with one group pretest-posttest design. The study was conducted to see the effect of providing education using culture-based comic media (independent variable) on elementary school students' attitudes in 3M practice (dependent variable). The population in this study were all students aged 10-12 years at MI Al-Kautsar Sorong, a total of 45 children. In this study, the sampling technique used is total sampling. The data were analysed with the Wilcoxon test. Result(s): The mean score post-test was significantly higher than the pre-test (pre-test 70,67;post-test 74,71;p-value 0,01). The difference score pre-test and post-test in categorical scoring showed significant differences;in the post-test group, as much as 46,67% (21 children) scored is good. Students' characteristic related to the post-test scores is age (p-value 0,001);the older children, the higher score they got. Conclusion(s): Comics with cultural context media can be considered alternative health promotion media for children. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.

Educational comics: a change in the attitude of 3M children aged 10-12 years during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: Covid-19 is a disease caused by a new type of Coronavirus namely Sars-CoV-2 which is transmitted through close contact and droplets. Symptoms are acute respiratory disorders such as cough, shortness of breath and fever above 38 degrees C. Attitude change is a stimulus or stimulus received by a person, either in the form of a positive or negative response. Educational comics are pictures and writings that make up a story, then packaged into a book. The comic "Kitorang Lawan Corona" is more interesting for the readers.