Survey on the Level of Oral Health and Oral Health Care Attitudes and Behavior of the Interest in Oral Health Education for Elementary School Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun-Ha Ahn ◽  
Cheon-Hee Lee
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Ana Puspita Indah ◽  
Indria Laksmi Gamayanti ◽  
Rendra Widyatama

Effectiveness of video game addiction prevention using ludo game for elementary school studentsPurposeThis study aimed to determine the effectiveness of ‘Ludo game’ for increasing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of elementary school students concerning video-game addiction.MethodsThe research was a quasi-experimental study with pre and post tests and a control group design. The subjects were 99 elementary school students who were divided into treatment groups (two groups of intervention) and a control group. The data were collected using a questionnaire of knowledge, attitudes and behavior. Data analysis used paired t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) with significance level of 95% (p <0.05). ResultsThe characteristics of the study subjects in all three groups before the intervention were normally distributed. Paired t-test results showed that the ludo game and interactive lectures can improve knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. However, there was no significant difference of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors through Ludo compared to health education through interactive lectures in health education delivery. ConclusionLudo game and interactive lectures together can effectively improve the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of elementary school students. Health education through ludo games was no more effective than the interactive lecture methods in increasing the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of students on the prevention of video-game addictions. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Soo-Myoung Bae ◽  
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Kyung-Min Kim ◽  

Objectives: This study examines the effect of education on toothbrushing and oral health on the oral health behaviors and knowledge of fourth graders in Busan. Methods: Data were collected from March to December 2020 via a questionnaire; a total of 57 fourth graders in D-gu, B city participated. Results: Respondents’ knowledge of oral health increased after participation in an oral health education program. Positive changes to participants’ frequency, duration, and method of toothbrushing were observed. Specifically, participants shifted from horizontal or vertical toothbrushing methods to rolling brushing after taking part in the educational program. Conclusions: Dental health education improves elementary school students’ knowledge of oral health and leads to behavioral changes that can improve oral health.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Indah Nisita Putri

Dental and oral health education to primary school children is one of the efforts to improve the health of the teeth inchildren for the preventive and promotive aspects. The choice of demonstration method on dental and oral healtheducation to support increasing understanding of the child, with doing practice the correct way to brush teeth. Thepurpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of oral health education to decrease plaque index at sixth gradeelementary school students. This research is a quasi-field experimental design with pre and posttest with control group.Subjects consisted of all sixth grade students in the village Padang Loang, District Patampanua, Pinrang. With clusterrandom sampling got 49 students. Data were analyzed using t-test. The results showed that one week after illuminationwas applied value of plaque decline 2.269 at the treatment group. While the control group have increasing value ofplaque 0.485. The data indicate that there are effects of oral and dental health education demonstration method insixth grade elementary school students. It was concluded that the introduction of the importance of oral health as ahealth maintenance efforts should be done from an early ages, it needs good cooperation between students, teachersand parents.


e-GIGI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Ayumi Y. Gerung ◽  
Vonny N. S. Wowor ◽  
Christy N. Mintjelungan

Abstract: Behavior is the second major factor that affects the health status of an individual or society. Good behavior in maintaining oral hygiene will have a positive impact on the status of children’s oral health. One of the efforts to reduce the number of caries is through the Usaha Kesehatan Gigi Sekolah (UKGS) program. This study was aimed to obtain the oral health care behavior of elementary school students with UKGS and without UKGS. This was a literature review study. There were four relevant literatures with related topics obtained from different databases, as follows: Google Scholar, PubMed, and Garba Rujukan Digital. The results showed that the UKGS program was effective in increasing the status of students’ oral health. Besides education about oral health at schools, parents and the media played some important roles in providing information of oral care. In conclusion, oral health care behavior of elementary school students with and without UKGS were in good category as long as teachers, parents, and internet media as well as print media were involved.Keywords: behavior; oral health; Usaha Kesehatan Gigi Sekolah (UKGS)  Abstrak: Perilaku merupakan faktor kedua terbesar yang berpengaruh terhadap status kese-hatan individu atau masyarakat. Perilaku yang baik dalam pemeliharaan kebersihan mulut akan berdampak positif pada derajat kesehatan gigi mulut anak. Salah satu upaya yang dilakukan untuk menurunkan angka karies yaitu melalui program Usaha Kesehatan Gigi Sekolah (UKGS). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perilaku pemeliharaan kesehatan gigi mulut siswa SD dengan UKGS dan tanpa UKGS. Jenis penelitian ialah literature review. Terdapat empat pustaka yang relevan dengan topik terkait. Pustaka dalam penelitian didapat dari database Google Scholar, PubMed, dan Garba Rujukan Digital. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan program UKGS efektif dalam meningkatkan derajat kesehatan gigi mulut siswa. Pendidikan tentang kesehatan gigi mulut tidak hanya berasal dari sekolah, tetapi orang tua dan media berperan penting dalam memberikan informasi tentang pemeliharaan gigi mulut. Simpulan penelitian ini ialah perilaku pemeliharaan kesehatan gigi mulut siswa SD dengan UKGS dan tanpa UKGS keduanya dalam kategori baik sepanjang adanya keterlibatan guru, orang tua, dan media internet maupun cetak.Kata kunci: perilaku; kesehatan gigi mulut; Usaha Kesehatan Gigi Sekolah (UKGS)


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Dwi Suyatmi ◽  
Dwi Eni Purwati

Service Activities Dental and Oral Health Care is part of the School Dental Health Enterprises (UKGS) which aims to improve the knowledge, attitude and the ability to behave in the field of healthy living oral health. These activities include outreach, shared toothbrushes and dental examinations, but oral health care has no knowledge, so the researchers are interested to know the difference before and after the service activities of oral health care on knowledge, attitude, oral health status elementary students. The purpose of this research is to know the difference before and aftercare service activities against oral health knowledge, attitudes, and oral health status of elementary school students. This study used a quasi-experimental method with the design of One Group Pre-test - Post-test Design. The population in this study were elementary school students in the area of ​​Gamping Sleman Yogyakarta with a sample of 179 students. Sampling techniques using saturation sampling. Results: Based on the analysis of different test (paired sample t-test) showed significant differences in knowledge, attitudes, oral hygiene, decay and Decay students between the before and after care service oral health (p<0.05). Conclusions: 1). Knowledge, attitude and degree of oral hygiene students after health care services increased oral better 2). There was a decrease in rate-test decay (teeth better ) and Decay (permanent teeth ) on the student after the service of oral health care.


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