Journal of A Sustainable Global South, p-ISSN: 2579-6062

PISANG GEN ALFA: Smartphone Application for Mental Health Families of Alpha Generation in Indonesia

Ahmad Guntur Alfianto1, Feri Ekaprasetia2

Department of Nursing

Institute of Health Science Widyagama Husada, Malang, Indonesia [email protected]

Faculty Of Health Science, DR Soebandi University, Jember, Indonesia

Abstract Families with alpha generation in the industrial era 4.0 have problems in mental health care, however, effortare made to prevent the occurrence through health education. The prevention model in the industrial revolution era 4.0 used a mobile application on a smart phone. PISANG GEN ALFA is a smartphone application that contains the method of parenting, assertive care, and stress management. The purpose of this study is to develop PISANG GEN ALFA as an application for reducing mental health problems in families with alpha generation. The application was developed through two stages, the first was carried out by creating application content and sophisticated systems by technology experts. Furthermore, in the second stage, a perception test was performed in the fields of mental, pediatric, and maternity nursing. Then, 100 families with alpha generation children were assessed in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia using a learning media questionnaire, and Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) test. The application consists of Education menu about PISANG GEN ALFA, parenting in industrial revolution era 4.0, stress prevention and management, assertive care, and parenting tension. The statistical analysis showed the value of 0.875, while the average of 3 assessors was 0.964> 0.5 (high stability). Furthermore, from the diligence results, 86.78% of the families stated that the application was very suitable for use, while 13.22% commented that it was feasible. PISANG GEN ALFA was a health education application used for families with alpha generation children in reducing mental health problems during parenting.

Index Terms— Alpha Generation, Mental Health, Smarthphone

  • I.    Introduction

The Indonesia population in 2019 was approximately 266.91 million, with the largest number being in the productive age (68%), while the alpha generation (age 0-14 years) was about 66.17 million people (24.8%) of the total residents (1). This generation is born between 2010 and 2025 (2), with developed and high intelligence compared to their predecessors. Furthermore, as many as 2.5 million alpha generation children are globally born every week, and they grow up depending on technologies, such as smart phones or gadgets (3). In Indonesia, 54% of them are very dependent and become technology addicts, which is almost closer to that of Asia (55%) (4), however, this makes them less sociable and creative. They also want fast and instant items, as well as lack of respect for the process (5). The development of alpha generation children in the 4.0 industrial revolution has made the conventional societal lifestyle to be unconventional, especially the technological growth, which allows rapid human evolvement (6).

Furthermore, the impacts felt by their families are mental health problems, such as experiencing stress in parenting. The problems faced in the process of caring for them by their parents are anxiety, stress, anger without cause, muscle distress causing dizziness, as well as the pressure experienced when carrying out the child care tasks (7). Therefore, an innovation is needed to bring families and children closer to a technology, by creating an application for preventing mental health problems while parenting.

The family roles in the development of alpha generation children are counselling, decision making, and veterans, which are represented as X, Y, and Z (8). This produces a new brainstorming collaboration, which has a good impact on the families and the alpha generation children (9). This collaboration is carried out in various ways, such as understanding the parenting concept, the stress management, and acting assertively (10). Therefore, a guide has been created for parenting, assertive caring, and stress management, to reduce mental health problems experienced by families while raising the alpha generation children.

Furthermore, it is a health education guide in the form of a smartphone application, which is called PISANG GEN ALFA. This correlate with the current concept in Indonesia, namely the industrial revolution 4.0. Currently, smartphone applications in Indonesia are used as an easy and cheap health education medium (11). Therefore, they are developed and used in reducing mental health problems in families with alpha generation. The purpose of this study is to develop PISANG GEN ALFA as an application for reducing health problems in families with alpha generation.

  • II.    Method

This study used a quantitative approach to determine the perceptions of three experts and respondents about using the application by families with alpha generation children, and was conducted in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia. The samples used were experts in mental, pediatric, and maternity nursing as well as those in the information technology fields. Furthermore, the respondents were 100 families with alpha generation children.

This application was developed in two stages, the first was creating it by determining the contents to be included, then inputing them into the system to develop PISANG GEN ALFA. The following were the system contents:

TABEL 1. SYSTEM CONTENS IN PISANG GEN ALFA

No

Content

Sub Content

1.

Parenting education      in

industrial revolution era 4.0

  • I.    Psychosocial   development   of

children to adolescents

  • II.    Family factors in parenting

  • III.    Style in parenting

  • IV.    Alpha generation

  • V.    Parenting tips

  • VI.    Parenting in growth phase

2.

Parenting stress prevention with assertive actions

  • [1]    Meaning

  • [2]    The assertive communication principle in alpha generation children

  • [3]    The assertive communication techniques in alpha generation children

  • [4]    The assertive behaviour categories

3.

Stress management

  • 1.    Meaning

  • 2.    Parenting   stress    in   alpha

generation children

  • 3.    Stress management

4.

Parental     stress

questionnaire

  • 1.    Meaning

  • 2.  Questionnaire sheet

  • 3.  Questionnaire history

5.

Questionnaire about   parenting

tension

  • 1.    Meaning

  • 2.  Questionnaire sheet

  • 3.  Questionnaire history

6.

PISANG   GEN

ALFA

Application description


This application was created by experts in the information technology field in the form of a smartphone gadgets. The supporting applications, such as Microsoft Word, Power Point (Microsoft Office), and animation editing gadgets were also included. Therefore the contents in these applications were introduced to families with alpha generation children.

The second stage was testing the application on 100 families with alpha generation children in Malang Regency,

East Java, Indonesia. The test was assessed by experts from mental, pediatric, and maternity nursing, as well as those in the information technology fields. Daily, 100 respondents receive a learning media assessment questionnaire as a perception test (12).

The results were assessed using perception reliability between raters with Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) on Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) 16. The approval and ethical feasibility of this study were carried out by the Health Research Ethics Committee STIKES Kepanjen Malang, Ethical Number No . 085 / S.Ket / KEPK / STIKesKPJ / V / 2020.

  • III.    Result

The PISANG GEN ALFA application contains menu content that provides information about parenting education in industrial era 4.0, stress prevention and management, assertive care, and parenting tension. The following were figures of the application content.

= PISANG GEN ALFA

SELAMAT DATANG Dl PISANG GEN ALFA


Aplikasi tentang pendidikan orang tua kepada keluarga dengan Generasi Alfa (anak yang lahir di atas tahun 2010) dan melatih orang tua untuk bisa mengkomunikasikan pengasuhan kepada anak dengan tetap menjaga perasaan dan menghargai hak-hak anak tanpa harus mengalah dan menyerang anak serta berlatih

MOBILE APPLICATION PARENTING. ASSERTIVE AND MANAGEMENT STRESS



Beranda


PENDIDIKAN PARENTING Dl ERA REVOLUSI INDUSTRI 4.0

PENCEGAHAN STRESS PENGASUHAN DENGAN TINDAKAN ASERTIF


STRESS PENGASUHAN DENGAN TINDAKAN ASERTIF

Pengertian

Stres pengasuhan pada anak dengan generasi a !fa

Gejala stress pengasuhan Pada anak dengan generasi alfa

Manajemen Stress

X Tutup Menu

MOBILE APPLICATION

PARENTING.

ASSERTIVE AND

MANAGEMENT STRESS

KUESIONER

TENTANG KETEGANGAN


= PISANG GEN ALFA

Riwayat Kuesioner

Reset

Apakah anda yakin ingin menghapus semua data skor kuesioner yang sudah dibuat sebelumnya?

Data skor kuesioner yang sudah dihapus, tidak dapat dikembalikan lagi.


XTidak


MOBILE APPLICATION PARENTING. ASSERTIVE AND MANAGEMENT STRESS

Fig. 1. PISANG GEN ALFA Content.

Furthermore, the perception test results using ICC analysis were show in table 1 below:

TABLE 2. EXPERT PERCEPTION TEST RESULTS WITH

RESPONDENTS USING THE ICC TEST

Intraclass Correlation

Sig.

Single Measures

0,875

0,000

Average Measures

0,964

0,000

Based on the content reliability test results, the evaluator value was 0.875, while the average value of the 3 assessors was 0.964> 0.5, therefore it was concluded that the application developed had an adequate reliability coefficient. This correlated with the Polger and Thomas (2000) study "The Introduction to The Research in Health Sciences" stating that the measuring instrument had adequate stability when the ICC value between the gauges was> 0.5, while for high stability, it was> 0.80. Furthermore, from the feasibility test conducted on 100 families with alpha generation children in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia, 86.78%

stated that the application was very suitable for use, while 13.22% commented that it was feasible

  • IV.    discussion

This application was a combination of various concepts, the first containing parenting learning, which was very important as it affected children's mental health (13). Parenting learning in the industrial revolution era 4.0 incorporated the internet technology. This was in line with the research on internet usage in caring for children with the results of increasing beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and controlling stress while parenting (14).

The second concept was preventing stress through assertive actions, which was carried out by telling the truth about the problems experienced and training to express feelings without offending others (15). Furthermore, this assertive method was able to reduce negative behaviour problems, such as bullying (16), and the psychosocial problems in patients (17).

The stress management in the third concept, discussed the techniques of dealing with problems while parenting in the industrial revolution era 4.0, and was carried out by shifting stressful situations. This was easily performed by ordinary people to divert thoughts and carry out daily activities (18) . Furthermore, many management techniques reduced psychosocial problems while parenting (19).

In the last concept, there were measurements of psychosocial problems, which included stress and tension in parenting (20) (21). Overall, these concepts were incorporated into the PISANG GEN ALFA application model used in families with alpha generation children. Therefore, families did not experience psychosocial problems during parenting and were able to do new brainstorming on their children using the application.

  • V.    Conclusion

PISANG GEN ALFA application was used in families with alpha generation children, and was able to prevent psychosocial problems during parenting.

Acknowledgment

This research was entirely funded by the Ministry of Research and Technology / National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia in 2020.

References

  • [1]    Kementerian Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak dan Badan Pusat Statistik. Profil Anak Indonesia Tahun 2019. Kementeri Pemerdayaan Peremp dan Perlindngan Anak [Internet]. 2019;378. Available from: https://www.kemenpppa.go.id/lib/uploads/list/15242-profil-anak-indonesia_-2019.pdf

  • [2]    Buchanan R, Alexander R, Gomes C, Fernanda C, Bezerra M, Oste G, et al. Study on The Alpha Generation And The Reflections of Its Behavior in the Organizational Environment Pract icing What We Teach: It erat ive Design Met hods for Innovat ion Educat ion Study on The Alpha Generation And The Reflections of Its Behavior in the . Quest Journals J Res Humanit Soc Sci. 2018;6(1):2321–9467.

  • [3]    Ramadlani AK, Wibisono M. VISUAL LITERACY AND CHARACTER EDUCATION FOR ALPHA GENERATION Abdul Khaliq Ramadlani , and Marko Wibisono. 2017;(October):1–7.

  • [4]    Arthy CC, Effendy E, Amin MM, Loebis B, Camellia V, Husada MS. Indonesian version of addiction rating scale of smartphone usage adapted from smartphone addiction scale-short version (SAS-SV) in junior high school. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2019;7(19):3235– 9.

  • [5]    Adisti AR, Rozikan M. Fostering the Alpha Generation: a Character Education Based on Javanese Unggah Ungguh (Etiquette) Culture in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah. Al-Bidayah J Pendidik dasar Islam. 2021;13(1):179–98.

  • [6]    Arifah MN, Munir MA, Nudin B. Educational Design for Alpha Generation in the Industrial Age 4.0. Proc 2nd Southeast Asian Acad Forum Sustain Dev (SEA-AFSID 2018). 2021;168:137–45.

  • [7]    Lam LT. Parental mental health and Internet Addiction in adolescents. Addict Behav [Internet]. 2015;42:20–3. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.10.033

  • [8]    Singh S, Zaki RA, Farid NDN, Kaur K. The Determinants of Mental Health Literacy among Young Adolescents in Malaysia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(6).

  • [9]    Swanzen R. Facing the Generation Chasm: the Parenting and Teaching of Generations Y and Z. Int J Child, Youth Fam Stud. 2018;9(2):125.

  • [10]    Alfianto AG, Jayanti ND. Pisang Gen Alfa: A Smartphone Application To Reduce Parenting Stress For Parents With Alpha Generations. Media Keperawatan Indones. 2020;3(3):121.

  • [11]    Gerdts C, Jayaweera RT, Kristianingrum IA, Khan Z, Hudaya I. Effect of a smartphone intervention on self-managed medication abortion experiences among safe-abortion hotline clients in Indonesia: A randomized controlled trial. Int J Gynecol Obstet. 2020;149(1):48– 55.

  • [12]    Ekaprasetia F, Kristianto H, Susanto T. First Aid Guideline (FAG): A first aid education application for children aged 11–14 years in Indonesia. J Taibah Univ Med Sci [Internet]. 2018;13(6):587–91. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2018.05.002

  • [13]    Ryan R, O’Farrelly C, Ramchandani P. Parenting and child mental health. London J Prim Care (Abingdon) [Internet]. 2017;9(6):86–94. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2017.1361630

  • [14]    David OA. The rational parenting coach app: Rethink parenting! a mobile parenting program for offering evidence-based personalized support in the prevention of child externalizing and internalizing disorders. J Evidence-Based Psychother. 2019;19(2):97–108.

  • [15]    Avşar F, Ayaz Alkaya S. The effectiveness of assertiveness training for school-aged children on bullying and assertiveness level. J Pediatr Nurs. 2017;36:186–90.

  • [16]    Herman H, Nurshal D, Novrianda D. The Effect of Assertive Training on Bullying in Junior High School. J Keperawatan Soedirman. 2020;15(1).

  • [17]    Mehta M, Sagar R. A practical approach to cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents. A Practical Approach to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents. 2015. 1–429 p.

  • [18]    Maya J, Lorence B, Hidalgo V, Jiménez L. The role of psychosocial stress on a family-based treatment for adolescents with problematic behaviors. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018;15(9).

  • [19]    Kumboyono K, Alfianto AG. Psychoeducation for Improving Self Efficacy of Care Givers in Risk Coronary Heart Disease Prevention : The Study of Family Empowerment. Indian J Public Heal Res Deevelopment. 2020;11(03):2309–13.

  • [20]    Louie AD, Cromer LD, Berry JO. Assessing Parenting Stress: Review of the Use and Interpretation of the Parental Stress Scale. Fam J. 2017;25(4):359–67.

  • [21]    Khanna R, Madhavan SS, Smith MJ, Tworek C, Patrick JH, Becker-Cottrill B. Psychometric properties of the Caregiver Strain Questionnaire (CGSQ) among caregivers of children with autism. Autism. 2012;16(2):179–99.