The Influence of Android Game in Improving Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Tooth Brushing

Wirata, I Nyoman and Ratmini, Ni Ketut and Nuratini, Ni Made (2019) The Influence of Android Game in Improving Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Tooth Brushing. International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 8 (11). pp. 10716-10723. ISSN ISSN(Online): 2319-8753 ISSN (Print): 2347-6710

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Abstract

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of dental and oral health problems in Indonesia mostly occurs among children. The behaviour of brushing teeth properly of children in Bali who aged> 10 years is 4.1%. One of the promotional media to increase knowledge, attitude, and behaviour is using interactive media based on games because an animation can improve memory compared to conventional education method so that the children can store learning material for a longer time.The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of game learning media by android to improve oral hygiene knowledge, attitude, behaviour and status of elementary school students in the working area of Puskesmas (Health Centre) North Kuta, Bali, Indonesia in 2018.The type of this quasi-experimental study was a pre-test post-test control group design. The total samples were divided into 75 students in the control group and 75 students in the experiment group. The differences between pre-test and post-test data in the experiment and control groupwere analysed by the Wilxocon test. The data on differences between experiment and control group were analysed using the Mann-Whitney test. The results show that there are significant differences between pre-test and post-test on tooth brushing knowledge, attitude and behaviour with p value = 0.000 (p<0.05), thus there is an increase in tooth brushing knowledge, attitude and behaviour between the pre-test and post-test in the experiment group. The game learning media by android has an influence to improve oral hygiene knowledge, attitude, behaviour and status of elementary school students in the working area of Puskesmas North Kuta in 2018 KEYWORDS: Android game, Attitude, Behaviour, Knowledge, Tooth brushing.

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