The effectiveness of disaster prevention and mitigation training for the students in disaster prone areas

Abstract

The prevention and mitigation of the disasters is the government focus program in the education and training in order to decrease the disaster risks at the predisaster stage, through the National Plan of Tackling the Disasters in 2015/2019. This study aimed to identify the capability of disaster prevention and mitigation training for students in disaster prone areas before and after the disaster prevention and mitigation training compared to the educational video screening and control, to find out the effectiveness of training compared to the educational video screening and control, to compare the effectiveness between the training and the educational video screening and control. This study was conducted at Kajenjeng Inpres Primary School, Makassar City. This research design was a Quasi experiment, that was the Nonequivalent control group design, comprising 75 students, who were chosen using the purposive sampling technique. The students were then divided into 3 groups, namely, the training groups, the educational video screening group and the control group. There were 25 students in each group. The data were collected by the interviewer using the Achievement test with the Structured Interview technique. The data were analyzed using the cross tabulation followed by McNemar and Post Hoc test. The research results indicated that training increased the capability of the disaster prevention and mitigation compared to educational video screening and control. The training had an effective capacity in the disaster prevention and mitigation compared to the educational video screening and control. In the other words, training is an effective method in the disaster prevention and mitigation skills of the students in disaster prone areas and not to the educational video screening nor the control.