THE EFFECT OF DENTAL AND MOUTH HEALTH EDUCATION USING POWTOON MEDIA ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF DENTAL BRUSHING IN CLASS V SDN JAYA NUGRAHA, TASIKMALAYA REGENCY

Abstract

Background: According to the Data and Information Center of the Ministry of Health of
the Republic of Indonesia in 2018, children are vulnerable to dental and oral health
problems. Tooth brushing behavior in children aged 10-14 years has a percentage of the
correct brushing time of 2.1%. Efforts to improve good and correct tooth brushing
behavior can be done with dental health counseling using multimedia applications. During
the COVID-19 pandemic, multimedia applications were the right choice to facilitate
counseling due to circumstances that did not allow face-to-face meetings and had to keep a
distance, one of the multimedia applications that could be used ispowtoon. Research
objectives: To determine the effect of counseling using powtoon on increasing knowledge
and practice of brushing teeth at SDN Jaya NugrahaTasikmalaya. The results: it was
found that the knowledge of students before being given counseling had moderate criteria
with a percentage of 56.6% while after being given counseling increased to good criteria
with a percentage of 85.3% and the practice of brushing teeth before being given
counseling had sufficient criteria with a percentage of 61.1% while after being given
counseling increased to very good criteria with a percentage of 92.5%. The results of data
analysis using the Wilcoxon test with p-value: 0.000 <0.005 which means Ho is rejected
and there are significant results. Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, it can be
concluded that there is an effect of counseling using powtoon on knowledge of oral health
and tooth brushing practices.