Dental and Oral Disease Education Model in Improving Knowledge and Attitudes of Dental Health Care in Adolescents


Authors : Julia Dance Setyowati; Rasipin; Bedjo Santoso; Supriyana; Lanny Sunarjo

Volume/Issue : Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 8 - August

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Prevention of dental and oral diseases has been widely done with promotional and preventive efforts but has not succeeded in improving dental health maintenance behavior in adolescence. The strategy of addressing this problem is through a conventional approach to dental health education. But there are still obstacles such as easily damaged, the message delivered is not delivered in full because sometimes there are only pictures without captions. education is influenced by interesting media so that the delivery of materials is more effective. The educational media that is developing today among teenagers is technology-based media. The Purpose to produce an android-based dental and oral disease education model as a medium of dental health education and analyze the effectiveness of android-based education models in improving the behavior of maintaining the health of adolescents' teeth and mouths. The Research Method use Research and Development (R&D) and test model using quasy experiment (pre and post-test with control group design). The study subjects were divided into 2 groups: the intervention of 45 children and the control of 45 children. The data was tested using wilcoxon test and mann-whitney test. Result: Android-based education model is worthy as a medium of dental health education (p=0.004) and effectively improves adolescent knowledge (p=0.002), adolescent attitudes (p=0.01) and is effective on information quality (p=<0.001). Conclusion: Android-based education has the potential to increase the knowledge of maintaining the health of adolescents' teeth and mouths.

Keywords : Education, Android, Dental And Oral Diseases, Adolescent

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