THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PUZZLE MEDIA ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Keywords:
Effectiveness, puzzle, knowledge, attitudes, breakfastAbstract
School-aged children are the nation's investment, who are the successors of development in Indonesia. The nutritional needs of school children based on the nutritional adequacy rate are 1850–2100 kcal. These nutritional needs include breakfast. Breakfast contributes around a quarter to a third of daily nutritional needs, namely around 400-600 calories. Based on Basic Health Research in 2018, 10% of school age children consumed breakfast with an energy intake of 30% and 26% of children consumed low quality breakfast, such as water, milk or tea.
The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of puzzle media on knowledge and attitudes about breakfast frequency before and after the intervention.
This research was conducted at Ash-Sholihah Islamic Elementary School. The type of research is Quasi Intervention Design with a pre-test and post-test research design. The population in this study were 55 students at class VI. Sample was total population. The research was carried out with counseling using puzzle media for 40 minutes. Pre-test was carried out before the counseling and a post-test was carried out 10 days after the counseling.
The results of the research are the availability of educational media, namely a puzzle game about breakfast which consists of two parts, namely the benefits of breakfast and the portion of breakfast. The average knowledge of respondents about breakfast at the pre-test was 20.27 and the post-test results were 26.58 points. The average breakfast attitude score in the pre-test was 15.65 and the post-test result was 18.24 points. Based on statistical tests using the independent-sample t-test, it shows a probability value of p = 0.001. It can be concluded that on average there is a real difference in the knowledge and breakfast attitudes of respondents before and after the counseling. Through this research, we can found an interesting and fun education to increase the knowledge of children.
