| Summary: | Background: Tuberculosis (TB) often attacks people of productive age
(years old) and is the third cause of mortality in Indonesia. Annual risk of
TB/acute respiratory tract infection (ARTI) in Indonesia is relatively high
and varies between 1-3%. An area with ARTI 1% means that every year
10 of 1000 people are infected. Health promotion through lecture, group
discussion and demonstration are alternatives methods for the
dissemination of health information about the prevention of TB infection to
students of elementary schools at District of Solok.
Objective: To identify the effect of health promotion through lecture, group
discussion and demonstration in increasing level of knowledge and skills
of elementary school students about the prevention of lung TB infection.
Method: The study was a quasi experiment with pre test post test control
group design. Subject of the study were students of grade V of elementary
schools with as many as 138 students comprising those from experiment
group and control group. Data analysis used paired t test and independent
t test.
Result: The result of paired t-test, showed that health promotion through
lecture, group discussion, demonstration, was effective in increasing
knowledge and skill of the elementary school students (p<0.05). The result
of independent t-test, showed that health promotion through lecture, group
discussion, demonstration was not more effective in increasing the
knowledge and skill of the elementary school stuudents compared to
health promotion by leaflet media.
Conclusion: Health promotion through lecture, group discussion and
demonstration was effective in increasing knowledge and skills on
prevention of lung tuberculosis transmission in elementary school
students. Health promotion through lecture, group discusion,
demonstration was not more effective in increasing knowledge and skill of
the elementary school students compared to health promotion through
leaflet.
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