The effect of little dentist education on the knowledge level of dental and oral health of elementary school children in Badung

Pengaruh edukasi dokter gigi kecil terhadap tingkat pengetahuan kesehatan gigi dan mulut anak sekolah dasar di Badung

  • Ni Putu Ayu Ratnasari Program Studi Pendidikan Dokter Gigi Fakutlas Kedokteran, Universitas Udayana Denpasar Bali, Indonesia
  • Putri Rejeki Departemen Ilmu Kesehatan Gigi Masyarakat dan Pencegahan Fakutlas Kedokteran, Universitas Udayana Denpasar Bali, Indonesia
  • Luh Ayu Wayan Rahaswanti Departemen Ilmu Kedokteran Gigi Anak Fakutlas Kedokteran, Universitas Udayana Denpasar Bali, Indonesia
  • Kadek Asri Asmita Pradnyana Putri Departemen Prostodonsia Fakutlas Kedokteran, Universitas Udayana Denpasar Bali, Indonesia
Keywords: little dentist, school dental health effort, school health effort

Abstract

Oral health problems limit an individual's ability to speak, chew, bite, smile, and psychosocial well-being. Riskesdas of Bali Pro-vince in 2018 stated that 51.72% of children aged 5-9 years and 34.19% of children aged 10-14 years had tooth decay. Ef-forts to overcome dental health problems can be implemented through the School Dental Health Effort programme by training health cadres such as little dentists. This study aims to determine the difference in the level of oral health knowledge of ele-mentary school children in Ungasan Village before and after being educated by a little dentist, using a pre-experimental study design and a one-group pretest-posttest design. The samples were students at SDN 5 Ungasan, SDN 7 Ungasan, and SDN 8 Ungasan who met the inclusion criteria, by using purposive sampling technique. As a result, there is a difference between the level of knowledge, namely the average level of knowledge of children's oral health before being given education by a little dentist is in the moderate category, while there is an increase of knowledge after education to the good category. It is con-cluded that there is a difference between the level of knowledge of elementary school children before and after being given education by small dentists.

Oral health problems limit an individual's ability to speak, chew, bite, smile, and psychosocial well-being. Riskesdas of Bali Pro-vince in 2018 stated that 51.72% of children aged 5-9 years and 34.19% of children aged 10-14 years had tooth decay. Ef-forts to overcome dental health problems can be implemented through the School Dental Health Effort programme by training health cadres such as little dentists. This study aims to determine the difference in the level of oral health knowledge of ele-mentary school children in Ungasan Village before and after being educated by a little dentist, using a pre-experimental study design and a one-group pretest-posttest design. The samples were students at SDN 5 Ungasan, SDN 7 Ungasan, and SDN 8 Ungasan who met the inclusion criteria, by using purposive sampling technique. As a result, there is a difference between the level of knowledge, namely the average level of knowledge of children's oral health before being given education by a little dentist is in the moderate category, while there is an increase of knowledge after education to the good category. It is con-cluded that there is a difference between the level of knowledge of elementary school children before and after being given education by small dentists.

Published
2024-04-01