Intention and Oral Health Behavior Perspective of Islamic Traditional Boarding School Students Based on Theory of Planned Behavior

Taufan Bramantoro,Titiek Berniyanti,Wahyuning Ratih Irmalia,R Darmawan Setijanto,Eris Basiroh

doi:10.1590/pboci.2020.039

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https://doi.org/10.1590/pboci.2020.039

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Abstract

Objective: To analyze the correlation of the students in an Islamic boarding school intention toward oral health behavior by means of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) approach. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional analytic study was conducted on 153 students of an Islamic boarding school who fulfilled the criterion. Data were obtained by a questionnaire and clinical examination . Data were presented as mean and standard deviation. Results: The highest score of the variable that affects behavior recorded from both male and female respondents was Subjective Norm (57.288 ± 12.828), followed by Attitude (25.627 ± 4.144). Meanwhile, the lowest score that affects behavior was Oral Health Knowledge (3.179 ± 1.402). All study variables, according to the theory of planned behavior, such as knowledge, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavior control, and intention had significant value to predict and assess behavior with p<0.05 . Conclusion: Attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and oral health knowledge in Private Boarding School’s Santris influence the intention to improve oral hygiene behavior.

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Islamic boarding school is an Islam-based educational institution with a boarding school system, where the students and teachers live in the same neighborhood, in a dormitory, and tend to be a closed community [1]
The questionnaire could be used as a tool to measure attitude, subjective norms, perceived control behavior, intention, oral hygiene behavior, and oral health knowledge to the respondents
Characteristics of respondents in this study consisted of gender, age, duration of stay in the boarding school, number of parent visits in 1 month, the amount of allowance per month, and madrasah school level in Islamic boarding schools

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Introduction

Islamic boarding school is an Islam-based educational institution with a boarding school system, where the students and teachers live in the same neighborhood, in a dormitory, and tend to be a closed community [1]. The number of Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia is about 27,230 with the majority located in Java Island (78.6%) with the total number of the student as many as 3.8 million; Islamic boarding school attracts special concern in research [2,3]. This boarding system education functions as a method of intensive religion-related study, Islamic culture conservation, and preparing promising Islamic scholars [4]. Islamic boarding schools are expected to be able to educate the students in all aspects in accordance with the values and norms of Islam, including aspects of oral health [6,7]

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