Prevention of Sexual Abuse Through Local Language Ludo Edutainment in Indonesia

Abstract

Background Sexual education is becoming increasingly important along with the increase in unhealthy sexual practices and sexual abuse in childhood. Leveraging the power of local language edutainment that appeals to children is a useful approach to teaching sexual prevention education.

Objective: This study aimed to improve children's behavior (knowledge, attitudes, skills and awareness) in preventing sexual abuse.

Methods: A participatory design approach was used to develop a sexual education methodology using a Quasi-experiment with pretest-posttest one group A sample of 33 elementary school students aged 11-15 years was included in the experimental group of the educational approach: Local language ludo game intervention. The study found that the results of knowledge,attitudes, skills and awareness improved after the intervention as the results showed that there was a statistically significant increase in test scores from the baseline test (M=7.15, SD=1.27; M=8.84, SD=1.09), (M=16.66, SD=3.32; M=24.1, SD=2.61), (M=17.39, SD=3.18; M=20.54, SD=2.96).

Conclusion: Ludo education media can improve sexual health education. The findings can also be applied by practitioners in the healthcare field and by researchers who want to further develop sex education.