Parental perceptions of the roles of home and school in health education for elementary school children in Finland

One health problem that often occurs in school-age children is dental and oral health problems. One of the efforts made by increasing the knowledge of children and parents about dental and oral health. This study aims to determine the effect of health education on how to care for teeth and mouth on knowledge, attitudes and skills as well as dental and oral health status in elementary school children. This study uses a quasi-experimental design. Respondents of the study amounted to 64 children (intervention group 32 children and control group 32 children). In the intervention group health education was carried out on how to care for teeth and mouth and observed ways to care for teeth and mouth at home for 1 month by involving parents and being monitored by the teacher, while the control group was not carried out. Test the analysis using bivariate univariate (frequency distribution) analysis (t test and correlation test) and multivariate (multiple linear regression). The results showed that there was an effect of health education on how to care for teeth and mouth on the knowledge, attitudes and skills and dental and oral health status of elementary school children (p value = 0.000-0.002 and Î± = 0.0050). Conclusion: health education about how to care for teeth and mouth is an effort to improve dental and oral health status in children.

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Dental Health Promotion Using Traditional Media in Elementary School Children: is it Effective?

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ◽

10.47191/ijmra/v4-i12-19 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 04 (12) ◽

Author(s):

Wiworo Haryani ◽

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Health Education ◽

School Children ◽

Elementary School Children ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

Dental Health ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Control Group ◽

Traditional Media ◽

Power Point

The people the behavior of maintaining dental health in elementary school children is still in the low category. This is evidenced by the results of basic health research proving that brushing teeth is good at the age of 5-9 which is 93.2% and at the age of 10-14 it is 96.5% but only 2.8% brushes teeth at the right time. Dental health education using traditional media can increase the dental health knowledge of elementary school children. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of traditional media on increasing dental health knowledge of elementary school children. Methods: This study used a quasi-experimental design with a pretest and posttest with a control group design. The research was conducted at SDN 1 Sumbermulyo and SDN 2 Sumbermulyo, Pasanggaran District, Banyuwangi Regency. The research sample was taken by purposive sampling technique, as many as 48 students consisting of 24 intervention groups and 24 control groups. The intervention group was dental health education using traditional "wayang" media, while the control group was dental health education using power point media. analysis using the paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test. Result: level of knowledge of dental health before and after in the treatment group and control group obtained significancy p = 0.000 then p < 0.05 which means dental health education with wayang media and power media point is equally effective in increasing the dental health knowledge of elementary school children. Difference in the level of knowledge between the intervention group and the control group value of p = 0.000, then p < 0.05, which means that dental health education using wayang media is more effective in increasing dental and oral health knowledge of elementary school children than using power point media. Conclusion: dental health education using traditional media is effective in increasing the dental health knowledge of elementary school children.

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The Dangerous Consumption of Hazardous Snacks and Independent Smart AcupresureTraining as Intelligence Improvements Students in Mlajah Elementary Schools Bangkalan Madura

Journal of Community Service for Health ◽

10.26699/jcsh.v2i2.art.p051-059 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 051-059

Author(s):

Ervi Suminar ◽

Widiharti Widiharti ◽

Levi Tina Sari ◽

Nevy Norma Renityas

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Elementary Schools ◽

Health Status ◽

Health Education ◽

School Children ◽

Elementary School Children ◽

Student Knowledge ◽

School Canteen ◽

Good Food ◽

Unhealthy Snacks

School children were vulnerable to had unhealthy snacked behavior due to their low knowledge and awareness in clean and healthy lived behavior. Even though there was a lot of data that shows unhealthy snacks for school children are sold not in the school canteen. To stimulate children's intelligence so that children could had good food and should achievements, smart acupressure was carried out, so that children were healthy in nutrition and brain. The purposed of this serviced was to seek to improved the health status of elementary school children through comprehensive promotive, preventive efforts and to increase student knowledge primary school. There was certainly very important to increased the awareness of school children about the importance of been aware of dangerous food snacked. This health education and smart acupressure trained was held in February 2020 at SDN Mlajah 01, and as a result the students (Afni, 2018)knew about the dangers of consumed food carelessly and the consequences if consumed such food, and smart acupressure trained could be carried out correctly by students of SDN Mlajah Bangkalan.

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