Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat
Vol 14, No 2 (2018)

Children’s Safety Education Model through Child-Friendly Games

Widowati, Evi (Unknown)
Hendriyani, Rulita (Unknown)
Nugroho, Efa (Unknown)
Qin, Axel Lee Wye (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Nov 2018

Abstract

Children are vulnerable to potential hazards from their environment because of theircognitive, psychological and social developments are in immature stages. Formal educationis still lacking in teaching safety concepts for children, hence a fun educationalmedia for children is needed so that children can learn through child-friendly educativegames. Because of that develop a fun child safety education model is important toimprove children’s knowledge on the importance of safety, so that children can easilyunderstand how to implement safety values in their life. We used Research and Development(R&D) level 1 design to develop children’s safety education game, which consistedof five stages, started from the data collection up to assess the product effectiveness. Theresult was a “snake and ladders of safety” game as safety education media for children.We presented 12 pictures in “snake and ladders of safety” game. This research was conductedon year 2017. Based on the game evaluation, the highest average pretest scorewas 37.9 and the average posttest score increased to 65.5, hence there was an increase ofknowledge on safety by 73.1%. It can be concluded that this game can increase children’sknowledge on safety.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

kemas

Publisher

Subject

Public Health

Description

KEMAS Journal: Research Study in Public Health publishes the article based on research or equivalent to research results in public health or other disciplines related to public health that has not been loaded/published by other media. The journal contains articles about epidemiology and ...