THE EFFECT OF TEAMS GAME TOURNAMENT TO BEHAVIOUR PREVENTION OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AMONG SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN

ABSTRACT Introduction: Acute respiratory infections was one of infectious disease that remains a major problem in health, especially in indonesia. ARIs can attack various ages, especially children. These happens because health education method to teach children about that has not been developed. TGT is one as an effort to solve this problem. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of TGT to change behaviour in preventing acute respiratory infections among school age. Method: This study was a pra-experiment using pretest-posttest one group design. Sample was school age children at fifth class of SDN Mojo 3 Surabaya. 43 respondents were involved according to cluster random sampling. TGT method was independent variable while knowledge, attitude, and action were dependent variables. Data were collected by using questionnare and observation sheet. Data then analyzed by using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with level of significance p