The Effectiveness of Digital Stories through Social Media in Providing Children some of the Health Skills to Prevent Epidemics

Mona  Saleh Alwazzan; Mona  Esmail Ahmad

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i4.2082

Authors

Mona Saleh Alwazzan Qassim University
Mona Esmail Ahmad Qassim University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i4.2082

Keywords:

Digital stories, early childhood, social media, health skills, epidemics

Abstract

The study aimed to verify the effectiveness of digital stories in developing the health skills to prevent epidemics by using the quasi-experimental approach. The test of health skills to prevent epidemics for children was used. The illustrated set of digital stories was prepared by the two researchers, and the test was applied to a sample of 150 children from the age of 6 to 9 years, 63 children in the lower quadrants were selected. They were randomly assigned into two experimental groups 33 and 30 control group. In this study the results found that there were statistically significant differences at 0.01 between the pre and post test of the experimental group in the direction of post test, and the existence of significant differences at 0.01 between the experimental and control group in the direction of the experimental, while there were no statistically significant differences between the post and tracer tests of the experimental group. This study recommended that digital stories should take an attention to present them for developing children's skills in various fields.

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