Pengaruh Penyuluhan Siaga Bencana terhadap Peningkatan Preparedness Bencana Gempa Bumi dan Tsunami Masyarakat Pesisir Pantai Negeri Rutah Kabupaten Maluku Tengah

Abstract

Indonesia, including the Maluku Islands, is included in an earthquake and tsunami-prone area because it is the meeting point of the Eurasian Plate and the Australian Plate. Improving preparedness aims to prepare people, so they don't panic too much when a disaster occurs to save themselves and their families from minimizing losses. Most of the people of Negeri Rutah work as fishermen and move around the coast, thus placing the community at high risk of earthquakes and tsunamis. This quantitative research uses a quasi-experimental method: pre-post test without a control group. The research sample is the coastal community of the State of Rutah, totaling 84 families. Counseling using disaster preparedness videos and earthquake and tsunami booklets. The results showed that didn't normally distribute the data with the Wilcoxon test results before and after intervention, p-value=0.001 (p<0.005), meaning that there was a significant effect of counseling on emergency response to the earthquake and tsunami on increasing preparedness of coastal communities in Negeri Rutah. The community and local government are expected to follow updates related to disaster preparedness, either seeking information through social media or participating in disaster-related socialization.

Health education on disaster triage as an effort to change the attitudes of people living in tsunami-prone areas

“…disaster triage properly (Adiwijaya, 2017). The important thing in this activity is to provide accurate information to the public regarding the evacuation process when an earthquake and tsunami occurs, the creation and dissemination of evacuation routes which are critical facilities that must be owned in the earthquake and tsunami-prone areas (Khair et al, 2021). The activities in this research can be one of the efforts to achieve SDGs, namely goal 3 (Healthy and Prosperous Life).…”

Penyuluhan tentang Gempa Bumi dengan Media Leaflet pada Masyarakat di Kelurahan Malabero Kota Bengkulu

“…Pemberian penyuluhan melalui video animasi dan booklet tanggap darurat bencana gempa bumi dan tsunami terbukti dapat mempengaruhi tingkat preparedness masyarakat. Pengetahuan dan sikap masyarakat meningkat setelah menyaksikan secara langsung video animasi dibandingkan hanya mendengarkan penyuluhan dari petugas kesehatan (Khair et al, 2021). Tujuan dari kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat di Kelurahan Malabero Kota Bengkulu adalah untuk meningkatkan kesiapsiagaan masyarakat dalam Hasil pre dan post test tingkat pegetahuan masyarakat Berdasarkan dari hasil kuesioner tingkat pengetahuan masyarakat sebelum kegiatan penyuluhan dilakukan menunjukkan bahwa 48.2% pengetahuan masyarakat masih kurang tentang mitigasi dan kesiapsiagaan bencana gempa bumi, sebanyak 30,4% pengetahuan masyarakat berada pada tingkatan cukup dan, sebanyak 21,4% pengetahuan masyarakat berada pada tingkatan baik.…”