Pretesting a poster that communicates principles of COVID-19 prevention at educational institutions in Depok City, Indonesia

Abstract

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia has developed a COVID-19 prevention poster for use in educational institutions. The poster was pretested to determine the reactions of individuals at educational institutions in Depok City in relation to various aspects of communication, such as attraction, comprehension, acceptability, self-involvement and persuasion. The research was descriptive and qualitative, and informants were selected by purposive sampling. The six research informants were teachers and students from a junior high school and a senior high school. Data were collected by using in-depth virtual interviews, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. According to our findings, both teachers and students found the information, images and words of the poster interesting, while the language and terms used were easily understood. In addition, the information was useful and appropriate to the situation and needs. However, titles should be more attractive and specific. In conclusion, according to the input from teachers and students, the COVID-19 prevention poster for educational institutions needs minor revisions. An additional recommendation was that the Indonesian Ministry of Health logo should be added to confirm the source and credibility of the poster.

Keywords:

• COVID-19
• pre-test
• poster
• educational institution

Acknowledgments

The authors thank you the Director of Health Promotion and Community Empowerment, Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia for providing feedback to this research. The authors also extended an appreciation to all the informants for participating in this study and also Ms Paskalinda Bandur, MSc for facilitating interaction of the research team and the corresponding author.

Ethics approval

This study was conducted in accordance with international standards following the Helsinki Declaration to comply with the requirement of the ethical clearance. No formal ethics approval was required in this study.

Author contributions

Fieldwork and analysis was undertaken by H and YM, who also led the development of this manuscript. AR and NN contributed to recruitment, study materials and commented on early findings. HP guided the writing of the proposal, study implementation and data analysis. In addition, he also approved the final manuscript. All authors have already read and approved the final manuscript.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that there are no competing interests with study or report.

Data availability statement

All data generated or analysed during the study are included in this article. Relevant raw data from this study (a script in Indonesian) can be provided upon request to the authors.

Additional information

Funding

Capacity Building Grant of the Faculty of Public Health [No: 221/SK/F10D/UI/2020] provided fund for translating manuscript from Indonesian into English.