The Effectiveness of Puppet Papers and Board Games Against Reproductive Health Education of Children With Special Needs

• Published in: Proceedings of the 1st EAI International Conference on Medical And Health Research, ICoMHER
• Main Authors: Masrul, Masrul, Yulizawati, Yulizawati, Susanti, Rika, Siska Sudirman, Yulyanti, Rahmi, Filda, Filda
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Padang European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Abuse; Children; Exceptional children; Health education; Reproductive health; Sex crimes; Sexuality
• ISBN: 9781631901805; 163190180X
• DOI: 10.4108/eai.13-11-2018.2283522

Reproductive health is a right of everyone especially children and teenagers to be given information and access to reproductive health and sexuality education is right for children with special needs. But the fact is that reproductive health education for children with special needs is rarely given attention because of the limitations they have, so the problem of sexual abuse and sexual assaults on children with special needs is still a major problem in Indonesia. The method is designed using paper puppet media and board games, supported by data collection form of pretest and posttest questionnaire on children with special needs with the aim of increasing the knowledge of children with special needs about the importance of understanding of reproductive health education and applying it correctly. The analysis was carried out by the Wilcolxon Signed Ranks Test, it was stated that there was a significant relationship if p <0.05. This program succeeded in increasing the knowledge of children with special needs known through the Wilcolxon Signed Ranks Test there was a significant difference between pre test and post test, P = 0.005 (P <0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that the provision of information about reproductive health is related to the level of knowledge of children with special needs, a significant increase in knowledge occurs