Flash Card Training for Dental Hygiene Cadre of Elementary School in Mandolang, Minahasa

Bidjuni, Mustapa and Harapan, I Ketut and Salikun (2019) Flash Card Training for Dental Hygiene Cadre of Elementary School in Mandolang, Minahasa. International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 8 (7). pp. 8201-8206. ISSN ISSN(Online): 2319-8753 ISSN (Print): 2347-6710

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Abstract

As many as 25.2% of children aged 10-14 years have dental and oral problems in Indonesia. This condition can affect their degree of health in the process of growth and development even their future. Based on RISKESDAS (Indonesia Basic Health Research) in 2007, 80% people suffered from dental caries, and 90% of them were children, showed that a group of children aged 10-14 years had problems with dental and oral health around 20.6%. In North Sulawesi the percentage of children aged 10-14 years that brush teeth every day is 95.7%, proper brushing behaviour is only 3.3%, while those who brush their teeth properly are only 1.7%.The research method was quasi experiment with pre-test and post-test designtime series. The population was class IV students of Kalasey State Elementary School and Buntong Elementary School in Mandolang, Minahasa Regency, amounting to 61 students, taking samples with purposive sampling technique. Paired sample t-test was used as the data analysis. The results of the study showed that the Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S) before the UKGS (School Dental Health Unit), the highest criteria werein“intermediate” with 42 respondents (68.9%), meanwhile10 respondents (16.4%) were in bad criteria and those in good criteriawere as many as 9 respondents (14.8%). After the training of UKGS cadre,the OHI-S is changed. The highest change was in the criteria of good i.e. 33 respondents (54.1%), intermediatewas in 28 respondents (45.9%), while the criteria for bad were not found. The results of the paired sample t-test OHI-S value mean = 1.068 before and after being given UKGS training, SD = 0.811 t-count = 10.284> t-table = 2 df = 60 and p value = 0,000 <α0.05. It can be concluded thatthere is effect of UKGS cadre training by using flash cards on the dental and oral health status of KalaseyState Elementary School students and BuntongInpres Elementary School, Madolang District, MinahasaRegency.

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