Pop-up book as a media for dental promotion to increase knowledge of dental health in elementary school students

Abstract

Background: Elementary school children have a high risk of dental caries. The use of pop-up books as a medium so that elementary school students better understand the importance of dental health knowledge and how to brush their teeth properly and correctly. Purpose: This study was to analyze the effect of pop-up book media on increasing the dental health knowledge of elementary school students. Methods: The design of this study was a quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest with one group design. The sampling technique was purposive sampling as many as 56 students. This research was conducted at SDN Nglengking, Minggir District, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Province from June to August 2019. The influence variable is the pop-up book media, and the affected variable is the level of dental health knowledge of elementary school students. Results: The results of the analysis of material experts and pop-up book media design experts showed a value of 35.5, meaning that it was very valid and suitable to be used as a dental health education media. The significant value of the level of dental health knowledge before and after dental health education was carried out with pop-up book media (p=0.000). Conclusion: pop-up book media about dental health is effective in increasing the dental health knowledge of elementary school students.
 Keywords: Pop-up media, knowledge, dental health, elementary school students.