The Use of “KakAyu Dental Flipbook” in Oral Health Knowledge Improvement for Elementary School Students in Depok
Abstract: Educating Indonesian
children to improve their knowledge about the importance of maintaining oral
health is needed. This study was aimed to explain relation between several
factors in elementary school students, such as grade, age, sex with number of
children in family or economic factor such as whether the mother is housewife
or she earns regular income, which is affected by improvement of their oral
health education. A quasi experiment pre-test and post-test without control
group design involved 141 students as selected through purposive sampling.
Samples were distributed to grade IV, V, and VI of private elementary school
students in Depok, West Java, Indonesia in April-October 2016. Data collection
used pre-test and post-test questionnaires. Data processing used Wilcoxon
Signed Rank Test and regression logistic. Results showed the improvement of
knowledge level after implementing “KakAyu Dental Flipbook” education. The
average result of respondents’ knowledge at pre-test was 80.85 ± 14.17, and
93.40 ± 9.84 at post-test. There is a relation between knowledge improvement
and education using “KakAyu Oral Dental/Orthodonthic Flipbook” (p value =
0.001), but no significant relation between the variables (grade, age, sex,
number of family members and mother’s working status) and oral health knowledge
improvement of elementary school students.
Keywords: Dental flipbook;
education; elementary school students; knowledge; oral health education
Author: Rikawarastuti, Eka
Anggreni, Rahaju Budiarti, Nurlaila Ramadhan Suid
Journal Code: jpkesmasgg170014
