Open AccessPARENTAL KNOWLEDGE TOWARDS CHILDREN’S DENTAL AND ORAL HYGIENE
Author(s) -
Agno Elman Efzi,
Emilda Sari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal riset kesehatan /jurnal riset kesehatan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2461-1026
pISSN - 2252-5068
DOI - 10.31983/jrk.v10i2.7625
Subject(s) - oral hygiene , dental hygiene , test (biology) , medicine , hygiene , special needs , family medicine , chi square test , dentistry , environmental health , psychology , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , pathology , biology
Dental and oral hygiene problem is the leading cause of daily activitiesdisruption in children such as missing school, bad learning concentration,appetite and nutritional intake. Knowledge of dental and oral hygiene shouldbe given at early age in family by the parents. The aim of our work was todetermine relationship between parents’ knowledge and dental hygiene of theSDLB children (children with special needs). We undertook this research withanalytical survey. A cross-sectional design was carried out. The samplingmethod was total sampling namely parents of children with special needs andthe children as many as 80 people. Chi-Square test was performed to analyzethe data. The results show that the knowledge of parents about dental andoral hygiene is not good (85%), while the dental and oral hygiene inchildren with special needs is poor (85%). Based on the Chi-Square Test, itproduces a p-value of sig (2-sided) = 0.002 in the test, so it can obtain ap-value (probability value) from the test (p = 0.002 = 0.05) so that Ho isrejected. In conclusion, a relationship between parental knowledge and oralhygiene in children with special needs does exist.