Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan Personal Hygiene Gigi Dan Mulut Terhadap Peningkatan Pengetahuan Dan Perilaku Anak di SD Al firdaus Surakarta
Daftar Isi:
- Brushing teeth behavior that uses tooth paste which is not right is massively found toward the children, thus it is necessary to improve their knowledge and conciousness of the importance of brushing teeth that can be implemented in the daily life. Children are the most reckless group toward the illness that come from unhealthy behavior, so the improvement of the conciousness to the personal hygiene is very important. Based on the introductory result of the research in SD Al Firdaus, the are found many children who do not concern with their self hygiene especially the erm of tooth and mouth, it is proved by the data of tooth and mouth checking to the third grade students, 40 students endure the problem of the teeth and teeth caries, some of them said that they brushed the their teeth hardly. Objective of this research is to know the influence of personal hygiene health education of teeth and mouth toward the improvement educational aged children knowledge and behavior in SD Al Firdaus of Surakarta. Type of this research is quantitative research. The research design is quest experiment with pretes-post test group design. The research population is the third grade students in SD Al Firdaus of Surakarta. Technique of collecting the sample is using random sempling. The research instruments use behavior rate measurement by giving checklist of the observation. The influence of helath education and behavior, the result of the knowledge of students in the pre test is evenly 12. 50, and in the post test is 13.87, so there is the improvement of 1.37, than p-value 0,001 then the average score of behavior in pre test is 12.47, then the average score of behavior in the post test is 13.47, so there is improvement of 1.00 than p-value 0,000. Thus it is proved that health education that uses LCD can improve the knowledge and the behavior of teeth and mouth personal hygiene to the elementary students in SD Al Firdaus of Surakarta. Keywords: Health education, personal hygiene, knowledge behavior