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The Effect of Social Media-based Pokemon Education on Adolescent Knowledge about Tuberculosis Prevention

BACKGROUND: Indonesia is in the second rank of the highest cases (TB) in the world. Therefore, tuberculosis prevention strategies are needed, especially for children.
AIM: This survey study aims to examine the effect of education using Pokemon based on social media such as Instagram and WhatsApp on students’ knowledge about preventing of TB transmission.
METHODS: The Pokemon Education develops by first author and validated by second author. The design of this study was a pre-experimental design with one group pre-post-test design. A total of 113 students were selected as sample of this study, but only 104 students attend and complete the questioner during data collection schedule. The research instrument used a Google Form Questionnaire.
RESULTS: Data analysis found that age mean of 104 respondents’ student was 13.42, meaning that the average age of the respondents was 13–14 years. Data analysis also found that the pre-test mean value of knowledge about TB prevention was 74.42 and mean value of the post-test was 84.81. Paired sample t-test results indicate that there is a significant difference knowledge about TB prevention before and after education (ρ = 0,0001).
CONCLUSION: Thus, it can be concluded that education using social media-based Pokemon is effectively to increasing adolescents’ knowledge about preventing TB transmission.