Personal Safety Skills Training: a Card Game Method and Its Effect on Knowledge Level and Self-Awareness in Preventing Child Sexual Violence
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Child sexual abuse is a serious issue caused by children’s low levels of knowledge and self-awareness in recognizing and reporting unsafe situations. This study aimed to analyze the effect of personal safety skill training using a card-playing method on children’s knowledge and self-awareness in preventing sexual abuse. This study employed a pre-experimental one-group pretest–posttest design involving 38 third-grade students of MINU Lumpur Gresik as the total sample. The intervention was delivered through educational card media in three sessions, and the data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with a significance level of 0.05. The results showed that before the intervention, most respondents had a moderate level of knowledge (84.2%) and a low level of self-awareness (65.8%). After the training, the majority of respondents experienced an improvement in knowledge to the good category (94.7%) and self-awareness to the good category (68.4%). The Wilcoxon test results showed a p- value of 0.000 (p < 0.05) for both knowledge and self-awareness variables, indicating that personal safety skill training through the card-playing method had a significant effect on improving children’s knowledge and self-awareness in preventing sexual abuse. This study concludes that the card-playing method is effective as an interactive educational medium to improve children’s ability to recognize, resist, and report. Game- based self-protection education programs need to be integrated into the school curriculum as a sustainable preventive strategy.
Source: Journal of Health Sciences
Institution: Universitas Gresik
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219901296