Promosi kesehatan gigi melalui kader pada siswa Sekolah Dasar Donotirto Kasihan Bantul

TAADI, drg. Sri Ediati, M.Kes

2004 | Tesis | S2 Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat

Penyakit gigi dan mulut yang berupa karies gigi dan penyakit jaringan pendukung gigi disebabkan oleh rendahnya tingkat kebersihan gigi dan mulut. Hal tersebut berkaitan dengan perilaku memelihara kebersihan gigi dan mulut. Siswa sekolah dasar merupakan kelompok usia anak pada tahap pertumbuhan gigi yaitu pada masa perjalanan pergantian gigi susu ke gigi permanen. Upaya pencegahan terjadinya penyakit gigi dan mulut melalui peningkatan kebersihan gigi dan mulut dilakukan dengan pemberdayaan kader kesehatan gigi sekolah. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui perbedaan kebersihan gigi dan mulut siswa sekolah dasar antara sebelum dan setelah dilakukan promosi kesehatan gigi oleh kader. Penelitian dilakukan dengan Quasi Experimen menggunakan one group Pretest-postest. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 50 orang siswa sekolah dasar dengan dilakukan bimbingan memelihara kebersihan gigi dan mulut oleh kader kesehatan gigi sekolah. Setelah dianalisis dengan menggunakan paired sampel t-test, menunjukkan adanya perbedaan yang bermakna kebersihan gigi dan mulut sebelum dan sesudah promosi kesehatan oleh kader kesehatan gigi di sekolah. Promosi kesehatan gigi melalui kader kesehatan gigi dapat meningkatkan derajat kebersihan gigi dan mulut.

Oral and dental diseases such as dental carries and disease of dental supporting tissue are caused by the low level of dental and oral cleanliness. This is related with behavior of maintaining dental and oral cleanliness. Primary school students considered as a group of children who were considered in the level of teeth development that is in the changing of milk teeth to permanent teeth. Effort of preventing dental and oral diseases by improving the cleanliness of dental and oral could be done through cadre empowerment of dental health at school. The aim of this research was to find out the difference of dental and oral health cleanliness of primary school students before and after dental health promotion by cadre. This Experiment was used one group pretest-posttest design. The subject of this research was 50 primary school students with supervision of maintaining dental and oral cleanliness by school cadre of dental health. The analysis result by using paired sample t-test showed that there was a significant difference between dental and oral cleanliness before and after health promotion by the dental health cadre at school. In conclusion, health promotion of dental through dental health cadre could improve the level of dental and oral cleanliness.

Kata Kunci : Promosi Kesehatan, Kader Siswa SD