Edukasi Pencegahan dan Penanganan Risiko Jatuh Pada Pasien dan Keluarga Pascaanestesi Spinal di Rumah Sakit Emanuel Banjarnegara

Introduction: Residual motor and sensory block, dizziness, and haemodynamic instability after spinal anaesthesia can increase the risk of falls during early mobilisation. Objective: This community service activity aimed to provide fall-risk education and describe knowledge-category distributions before and immediately after education among patients and accompanying family members at Emanuel Hospital, Banjarnegara. Method: The activity took place from 15 July to 6 August 2026. Of 42 prospective participants recorded as approached, 12 declined and 30 completed the activity, comprising eight patients and 22 family members. Participants received a pretest, approximately ten minutes of leaflet-assisted education on fall-risk recognition, requesting staff assistance, environmental safety, and supervised mobilisation, followed by discussion and a posttest. A ten-item knowledge questionnaire developed by the activity team was used at both assessments. Formal validity and reliability testing had not been performed. Result: Before education, good, moderate, and poor knowledge categories comprised 1 (3.3%), 26 (86.7%), and 3 (10.0%) participants, respectively. Immediately afterward, the corresponding figures were 7 (23.3%), 21 (70.0%), and 2 (6.7%). Only aggregate category distributions were available; individual paired changes could not be determined. Conclusion: The absence of a comparison group, immediate reassessment, and unvalidated questionnaire limit interpretation. The activity was followed by a favourable descriptive shift in knowledge categories, but did not establish a causal effect or measure actual fall prevention. Education should complement, not replace, clinical assessment and staff supervision before mobilisation.