MENINGKATKAN PERILAKU KONSUMSI JAJANAN SEHAT PADA ANAK SEKOLAH MELALUI MEDIA AUDIO VISUAL

Abstract

School age children are the group of age which often start to have an exposure by outside environment included school environment. This case causes school age children have a risk to have health problem because of their random snack consumption behavior. Snack of school has a risk to biological or chemical pollution which much disturb health. The purpose of this study was to explain the effect of audio visual media in the effort of increasing healthy snack consumption behavior in school age children. The study used quasy experiment. The populations were all of six graders in SDN Seduri 1 and five graders in SDN Singkalan Balongbendo, Sidoarjo. 40 students were participated. Sample taken used purposive technique. There were independent variable (audio visual) and dependent variable (knowledge, attitude, and actions). Data were collected by using questionnaire, then analyzed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and Mann Whitney U Test with significant level of ≤0.05. The results of this study were knowledge (p=0.002), attitude (p=0.041) and actions (p=0.004) for intervention group. While in control group, knowledge (p=0.317), attitude (p=0.180), and action (p=0.527). The result of Mann Whitney U Test showed that p=0.001 for knowledge, p=0.000 for attitude, and p=0.000 for action. It can be concluded that health education using media audio visual is effective to improve the knowledge and the action in healthy snack of children in school ages. The next researcher hoped can apply the newest innovation in health education and analyze the factor about health snack in school age children