Educational Effectiveness Using Paint Application Media on Knowledge About Dental Health Care in Elementary School Students

Abstract

The prevalence of caries in school-age children is still high due to inadequate maintenance of dental health. Dental health maintenance education is one of the efforts to achieve optimal dental health status. Education using paint application media is interactive so that it can increase children's understanding and motivation in receiving educational material whose goal is so that children are willing and able to be independent in carrying out dental health maintenance. This type of research is a quasi-experimental design with a pre-post test with control group design. The number of respondents was 60 elementary school students aged 8-10 years. Data analysis used paired t-test. The results of data analysis showed that there was an effect of providing education using paint application media on knowledge about maintaining dental health in elementary school students (p=0.000).