Improving Elderlys Dental Hygiene Through Nursing Home Staffs Dental Health Education at the Nursing Home
Abstract: Stomatitis often
occurs in elderly at nursing home. They need nursing home staff assistance to
maintain their dental and oral health. Therefore, nursing home staff need
dental health education. Lecture or discussion methods, which are more
effective to improve knowledge, attitude and skill of nursing home staff was
the purpose of this research. The research design was quasi-experiment research
and pretest-posttest with control group. The sample was 42 nursing home staffs
and 74 elderlies, divided into two groups, consisted of 18 nursing home staffs
and 33 elderlies using lecture method. Another group consisted of 24 nursing
home staffs and 41 elderlies using discussion method. Validity was tested with
product moment. Questionnaire of knowledge, attitude and skill correlation was
0.4725 0.6853; 0.47720.6962 and 0.31000.4916. Reliability test with Alpha
Cronbach was 0.9292; 0.9273; 0.792. Research result was lecture and discussion
methods were effective to improve knowledge, attitude and skill of nursing home
staff to increase elderlys dental hygiene. The research concludes that
discussion method is effective to improve knowledge while lecture is more
effective to improve attitude and skill of nursing home staff.
Keywords: elderly, knowledge,
attitude, practice, pramurukti, dental hygiene
Author: Bedjo Santoso, Endah
Aryati Eko Ningtyas, Diyah Fatmasari
Journal Code: jpkesmasgg170095
