Peningkatan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Terhadap Bahaya Rokok Bagi Kesehatan Melalui Poster Dengan Partisipasi Siswa di Kabupaten Gorontalo

Abstract

Background: Smoking can bring serious impact on human’s health. The habit of smoking from teenage period has the probability 50:50 to die at young age due to diseases associated with smoking. Therefore efforts to promote health on the danger of smoking are directed more to teenagers since they are the main target of cigarette industry. Lots of media that deliver health massages are currently not distributed. It is necessary to have participation of the target in developing media of health messages such as poster to overcome this problem.

Objective: To identify impact of health education method through participatory posters to increase knowledge and attitude of students toward the danger of smoking for health, and find out the different impact of health education method using participatory posters and without poster in increasing knowledge and attitude of students toward the danger of smoking on health.

Method: The study was quasi experiment that used pre-test post-test with control group design. Participants of the study were students of SMP Negeri 1 Limboto Barat, SMP Negeri 2 Telaga and SMP Negeri 3 Limboto. Samples were taken purposively. Data were obtained through questionnaire of knowledge and attitude and analyzed using paired t-test and independent t-test.

Result: Average increase of knowledge and attitude was significant found among three groups. The highest increase of knowledge was found in the participatory poster group and the highest increase of attitude was found in the sticking poster group. Difference in average knowledge of the three groups was significant, but not in average attitude (p>0.05).

Conclusion: Participatory poster method was more effective in improving knowledge of students about the danger of smoking than attitude. This method could be an alternative in the socialization of the danger of smoking for health.

Keywords: knowledge, attitude, smoking, poster, health education