STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTONOVELA-BASED COMIC MEDIA IN PREVENTING SMOKING BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN

Abstract

The prevalence of child smokers has shown an increasing trend. Various efforts have been made to prevent the increase in prevalence, one of which is through educational media. Photonovela is one of the media that can visualize graphic images and can show public awareness. This study aims to develop comic-based photo novella educational media to prevent smoking behavior in elementary school children. This research is a Research and Development study. This research develops media with the ADDIE approach. The sample in this research was taken by purposive sampling. The media developed was tested for expert feasibility by as many as 1 linguist, 1 media expert, 1 anti-smoking activist, 1 person in the field of health promotion in Jambi city, and 30 elementary school student participants. The results stated that the average score of media experts was 87.14% (very feasible), and language experts were 84.44% (very feasible). Content validators obtained an average score of 82.5% (very feasible) and a participant group of 91.60% (very feasible). Comic-based photo novella educational media is very feasible to be applied as a learning media to prevent smoking behavior in elementary school children