PROSES PENDEKATAN KEPADA KELOMPOK SASARAN PENGABDIAN KEPADA MASYARAKAT: PERLUKAH PENELITIAN TINDAKAN ?

Abstract

ABSTRAK

Sering terjadi universitas melakukan kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat sebagai bakti sosial. Sekali datang dan setelah itu masyarakat ditinggal tanpa ada kegiatan lanjutan. Tidak jarang kegiatan yang dilakukan bukan merupakan kebutuhan utama masyarakat yang didatangi. Pertanyaannya kemudian, bagaimana sebetulnya pendekatan yang tepat, sehingga kegiatan betul-betul bermanfaat sesuai kebutuhan mereka. Apakah kegiatan perlu dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan action research?

Masyarakat dampingan terlibat sejak awal untuk menentukan kebutuhan mereka. Bersama dengan mereka, kita melakukan penilaian awal. Kemudian merancang tindakan yang tepat sesuai kebutuhan.
Setelah ada tindakan, penilaian dilakukan lagi. Apakah ditemukan persoalan baru dan kebutuhan baru? Apakah kemudian siklus diulang? Bagaimanakah pelaksanaannya? Apakah dibutuhkan sekutu yakni orang-orang penting pendukung kegiatan?

LPPM UKRIDA secara multidisiplin telah melaksanakan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (abmas) di dekat Kampus 2 pada tahun 2014-2015. Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran UKRIDA sering melakukan bakti sosial di situ. LPPM UKRIDA memutuskan untuk melakukan kegiatan berkelanjutan sekaligus mengumpulkan data kesehatan fisik dan psikologis selama dua kali dalam setahun di tahun 2014-2015.

Proses pelaksanaan abmas LPPM UKRIDA secara multidisiplin di tahun 2014-2015 akan didiskusikan dalam seminar. Pertanyaan-pertanyaan di atas akan dibahas dalam penyajian. Demikian pula hasil penelitian multidisiplin akan disajikan untuk menggambarkan kesehatan fisik dan mental masyarakat dampingan.

Abstract

It is a common practice that university does community service by serving the community without any effort to sustain the activities. We come doing the service without involving the community in the preparation as well as the process during the service. The community is just receiving our activities. It is also common that what we give is not the needs of the community but our own needs to do the social service. The question then, how the proper approach must be done that the activities are the needs of
the community? Is it necessary to do action research? The community is involved since the beginning to decide their needs in our preliminary assessment. Actions will be done according to the findings from the needs assessment. After the actions, together with the community we do the evaluation of the actions done. We then find another problem to be solved and another needs to be fulfilled together with the community. The cycle, then, to be repeated. How is the process of the cycle? Do we need alliances from the key persons in the community? Those questions are to be discussed during the seminar. LPPM UKRIDA had done community service multidisciplinary in the community closed by our Campus 2 in 2014-2015. We decided to continually serving the community twice a year in those years in physical and mental health. This paper presents the results of needs assessment and the importance of doing action research is presented during the seminar.