Daftar Isi:
  • Dental health is considered to be an essential and fundamental part in children’s growth. However, numbers of parents in Indonesia are not concerned with their children dental health. This research aims to identify the influence of dental health education using cartoon animation media to the value change of oral hygiene towards children with special needs at SLB NegeriBangli, Indonesia in 2017. This study is pre-experimental research, where the design was targeted in one group (X) in particular condition then followed by observation and measurement. The sample size of this study is 43 participants. In this study, univariate analysis was used in the form of mean, frequency and percentage, which then continued by bivariate analysis with T-test. The result of this study shows the average value of oral hygiene is increased by 0.84 after oral health education by cartoon animation, compared to the earlier stage (1.37). This study concludes that there is a significant difference in oral hygiene, before and after oral health education program by using cartoon animation for dental health, with significant value of0.00 and correlation value of 0.84