Teams Games Tournament Method in Improving Knowledge, Attitude, and Handwashing with Soap Practice on 3Th Grade Elementary School Students

DOI

10.2991/esic-18.2019.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

handwashing with soap, teams games tournament method, flashcard

Abstract

Handwashing with Soap Practice can prevent diarrhea contagious. HWS should be taught to children through health education. Various methods can be used in health education such as preaching method that is tent to be passive in its activity. Teams Games Tournament bases on interesting game and it is most applied in formal education which is effective to improve learning result, as the result it will be applied in health promotion sector in elementary school. This research aims to know knowledge and practice improvements of HWS practice uses Teams Games Tournament Method on III grade students in SDN 016 Sungai Keledang Samarinda Seberang. Research method is quasi-experimental (non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design). Total samples are 66 students, that is taken with total sampling which consist of III-A grade with total 33 students as experimental group and III-B grade with total 33 students as control group.Research result shows there are knowledge (p=0,043) and HWS practice (p=0,000) practices before and after TGT method is given on experimental group. Whereas, there are no knowledge (ρ=0,392) and HWS practice (ρ=0,662) improvements. There are differences between knowledge (ρ = 0,033) and HWS practice (p=0,000) improvements between experimental and control groups. Based on research result can be concluded that TGT method is effective to improve knowledge and HWS practice on III grade students in SDN 016 Sungai Keledang Samarinda Seberang. It is expected for health officer can apply and optimize TGT method as variational methods to give education in health promotion sector according to target characteristic.

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AU  - Danti Mutia Sari
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