Design of Teaching Aids for Understanding Smoking Hazards with Design Thinking

Abstract

The high number of active smokers in Indonesia followed by the escalation of young smoker who tried smoking for the first time at the age of ≤ 13 years old is an irony that occurs in Indonesia. Primary school students spend most of their time at school, so this is a potential chance for intervention of health education for children, particularly for preventing them to try to smoke. By Design Thinking approach, this study discusses a teaching aids as a health education's media tailored based on the needs and wants of users. Starting from the empathy phase and define, user's needs and wants can be defined into elements to construct the teaching aids. Followed by the ideate phase until the prototype which provide a solution to the problems faced by users. Ends with the test phase which shows that the teaching aid intervention with Asymp. Sig. <0.05, which means giving a change to students' knowledge, where the changes are an increase in students' knowledge and awareness of the hazard of smoking. The teaching aids is proven could give a positive influence and satisfaction to the users.