Authors: Haris Sofyana1, Sri Kusmiati2
1,2 Department of Nursing, Health Polytechnic of Health Ministry at Bandung, Indonesia
Email: hsofyana@yahoo.co.id
Abstract
The number of children who are victims of disasters is always comparably higher than that of the other victims of disasters, not to mention the psychological disadvantages caused by the prolonged trauma, causing children’s personal quality of life to decline to a worrisome level. School is the institution most unprepared for disasters, while in fact it is the most ideal place to inculcate, socialize, and train anticipation and reaction in disaster preparedness. Children are the group most vulnerable in disasters, as they have no adequate attitudes, knowledge, and skills related to disasters. This research aims to find the influence of the training of Anak Sekolah Kenal Bencana or Disaster Awareness for School-Age Children (Indonesian, ASAL KENA) on the improvement of behaviours (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) of the junior high school students in Banjaran Sub-District. It adopted qualitative approach with quasi-experimental method and randomised two-group pre-post-test (control group) design. The sample was taken with purposive random sampling technique. Respondents were divided into the intervention group and control group, with 107 people in each group, respectively. The analysis employed paired t-test for the dependent samples and t-test for the independent samples in the pre and post-tests. The findings suggest that the training of ASAL KENA had influences on the disaster-related knowledge, attitudes, and skills of the junior high school students in Banjaran.
Keywords: Asal Kena (Training of Disaster Awareness for School-Age Children), disaster, behaviours, junior high school students