Audiovisual Media’s Effectiveness on Community Knowledge about First-Aid Accidents

Abstract

Traffic accident is one of the most significant causes of death globally. Handling accident victims within the first hour is a critical time to save accident victims and avoid bad conditions or death. People who do not provide first aid do not have good knowledge and skills about first aid. Efforts to increase knowledge can be made through counseling. The learning media used in general are two, namely electronic media and print media. This study aim to determine audiovisual media's effectiveness in increasing public knowledge.  The design used pre-experiment one group, pre-test post-test. Instruments used questionnaires and audiovisual media. The samples used were village management and surrounding communities, and sampling using g-power software 3.1 obtained the results of 56 respondents. Data analysis using the Wilcoxon test.  The study showed that public knowledge about first aid measures in accidents before being given audiovisual media good knowledge (73.2%). However, after being given audiovisual press, almost all respondents had significantly increased knowledge in the category of good knowledge (98.2%). There is a significant effect of the effectiveness of the audiovisual method in increasing public understanding of as many as 14 respondents on first aid actions in accidents with a p-value = .0001 (< 0.05).  Public knowledge of first aid is urgently needed to save accident victims. People who already know the importance of community assistance can perform first aid so that injuries do not become severe.