The Influence of Health Promotion Using Crosswords on DHF Prevention Knowledge and Attitudes in Class IV Students of SD N 42 Jambi City

Background: Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a public health problem in Indonesia whose number of sufferers tends to increase and its spread becomes wider. Dengue fever is an infectious disease that mainly attacks children. Viral infections occur through mosquito bites, the virus enters the human bloodstream to then replicate (replicate itself), and can cause death. One effort to reduce the prevalence and reduce dengue fever is through health promotion media using crossword puzzles for class IV students at SDN 42/IV Jambi City. This research aims to determine the influence of healthpromotion media with crossword puzzles at SDN 42/IV Jambi City.Method: This researchis a non-probability research with a one group pre test post test design using simple randomsampling. This research was carried out at SDN 42 Kota Jambi. Univariate descriptive analysis includes frequency and percentage distribution, bivariate test with Shapiro-Wilk and Wilcoxon signed rank test.Result: It is known that Asymp.Sig (2-tailed) has a value of 0.001. Because the value of 0.001 is smaller than ≤ 0.05, there is a difference in the results of health promotion using crossword puzzles for class IV students at SDN 42 Jambi City in the pretest and posttest.Conclusion: Present the main conclusions and implications. There is an influence of health promotion using crossword puzzles on knowledge and attitudes towards preventing diabetes mellitus in class IV students at SDN 42 Jambi City.