Effect of Disaster Risk Reduction Training (Disaster Mitigation) Based on Community Participation on Flood Disaster Management Preparedness Knowledge

Abstract

Disaster is an event or series of events that threaten and disrupt the life and livelihood of the community caused by natural factors and or non-natural factors or human factors resulting in casualties, environmental damage, property losses, and psychological impacts. Purpose of this research is to measure the ability of the people to understand the training of disaster risk management. This research is quantitative research with a quasi-experimental design with a pre posttest with control group approach. The result of this study finds that there is strongly correlation between training and knowledge of the people of Wawosolo with p value 0, 0001. Based on the result we suggest conducting training of the people to protect the risk of disaster.