The Effect of Snakes and Ladders Media Intervention on Knowledge Prevention of Diarrhea Among Elementary Students in Bandung

Diarrhea is a leading cause of death among children in the world. Majority of affected children's were in the school age group. It causes 2 million of children die in the world, and 420 thousands of children in West Java. Data of SD Negeri 1 Kertajaya during July-August 2017, 7 students were affected by diarrhea and 4 of them were fifth grade students. Several action has been implemented as a prevention strategic to reduce the number of diarrhea cases with a recent approach is using an educative game. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of snakes and ladders ameon the knowledge of diarrhea prevention.Apre-experiment alone group pretest-posttest design was conducted with simple random sampling technique. We used 20 students, which divided in 5 group, for each group consist of 4 students. We used prevention knowledge questioner as an instruments. The knowledge of students were measure before and after intervention by using t-paired test. The results of the study show that p value<0.05 that means snakes and ladders game is effective to increased knowledge of students about diarrhea prevention. It was concluded that the snakes and ladders media is effective to increase the knowledge of diarrhea prevention. Suggestion for the Community Health Centre to provide an educative game to give health education for the children population