A Comparison of the Use of Creative Video Media and Leaflets on Gastritis in Relation to the Improvement of Knowledge Among Students at Prima Nusantara University

Abstract

Gastritis is an acute, chronic, diffuse, or localized inflammation of the gastric mucosa. Gastritis cases in Indonesia reached 40.8% and in West Sumatra by 11.18%, while in Bukittinggi City gastritis cases were ranked 7th with 670 cases of the 10 largest diseases. The initial survey conducted on knowledge about gastritis in students of Universitas Prima Nusantara Bukittinggi was still in the low category. Health promotion media is a means of delivering health information messages to increase knowledge and change behavior toward positive health. This study aims to determine the comparison of creative video media and leaflets to knowledge about gastritis in students at Prima Nusantara University Bukittinggi in 2023. This type of research is quantitative using Quasy Design experiments with the Two Group Pretest Positive approach, this research is divided into 2 groups of respondents, namely the creative video group and the leaflet group. The population of this study amounted to 1337 with 32 respondents with Non Probability Sampling (Purposive Sampling) sampling techniques. The results of the study in the creative video group the average value before being given treatment (pretest) was 6.50 while after being given treatment (posttest) an average value of 11.13 was obtained. The results of the study in the leaflet group the average value before treatment (pretest) was 5.38 while after treatment (posttest) an average value of 10.56 was obtained. The results of the study using the Mann-Whitney test found that both groups had an influence on gastritis knowledge in students in the creative video group and the leaflet group with a P-value = 0.008. The average value of the results of this study proves the use of creative videos is more effective in delivering health promotion in increasing disease knowledge about gastritis. It is hoped that this research can be a reading material, in increasing knowledge about gastritis and more effective and creative in the selection of health promotion media as an effort to increase knowledge.