A simple way to reduce the risk of being exposed to COVID-19 using instruments for children

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Children need to get protection during the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with Presidential Regulation 12/2020 on The Determination of Non-Natural Disasters. AIM: The purpose of the research is to develop non-natural disaster risk instruments for children. METHODS: This type of research is Research and Development. The participant population is divided into 3 roles, Focused group discussion participants (20 people), instrument testing (267 respondents), and experts (methodology experts and disaster experts). Instrument development is carried out in five stages, namely (1) Instrument evaluation;(2) development;(3) experiment;(4) socialization;and (5) recommendations. RESULTS: The results showed that from 32 valid items, 25 items were all reliable because the Cronbach alpha value was above 0.7. Not valid for seven items. The results of the instrument trial of 267 children, who had the potential to be exposed to COVID-19 were 69% who were not exposed to 31%. Of the 69%, strong exposure is 2%, high exposure is 15% and medium exposure is 83%. CONCLUSION: The developed non-natural disaster risk instrument can be used to assess disaster risk for children. The instrument works well, has efficiency, functionality and usability. Outputs (1) Disaster risk instruments for children;(2) intellectual property rights;(3) publication of international journals, and (4) monograph books.