Abstract
Background: Two main influencing factors of dental and oral health in developing countries are attitude and behavior.A person’s behavior is influenced by intentions, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control. Attitudes and parentalbehaviors, especially mothers, have a significant effect on children’s behaviors, especially in maintaining dental health.A mother should be literate about and set examples on dental and oral health to her child. An epidemiological studyconducted at the Kalijudan Health Center involving 105 research respondents reported that parental behavior, especiallyperceived control, had a significant effect on the dental health care of children under five. Therefore, we created anempowerment program by using WhatsApp as the communication platform. Dentists of Kalijudan Public Health Center(Puskesmas), cadres of Integrated Health Service Post (Posyandu), and mothers of children under five have joinedthe group to facilitate QA with the dentist regarding dental health care for children. Purpose: To ease the access toinformation and consultation regarding dental health care for children under five. Methods: To empower the mothersby having discussions with the stakeholders Kalijudan Public Health Center via WhatsApp group. Results: 5 out of 10active mothers gave questions about the health of toddlers’ teeth and were answered directly by a dentist representativefrom the Kalijudan Health Center during a two-hour forum. Conclusion: Cadres and mothers of children under five wereable to access information and consult with dentists of Kalijudan Public Health Center easily via WhatsApp group namedSARASEHAN. The program was beneficial for mothers as it facilitated the mothers to learn more about their children’sdental care.
Highlights
Dental and oral health is a fundamental part of general health and affects one’s well-being[1] Poor dental and oral health will negatively affect one’s quality of life.[2]
The expected outcome of the program was the active participation of cadres and mothers in discussing and asking questions related to child dental health
Five out of 10 mothers have actively participated in the 2-hour forum, asking questions related to child dental and oral health to a dentist of Kalijudan Public Health Center
Summary
Dental and oral health is a fundamental part of general health and affects one’s well-being[1] Poor dental and oral health will negatively affect one’s quality of life.[2]. According to the planned behaviours theory, a person’s behaviours is influenced by intentions, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control.[3] Attitudes and parental behaviours, especially in mothers, in maintaining dental health have a significant influence on children’s behaviour. Public Health Centre by the second batch of the 7th PKL team involving 105 research respondents reported that maternal parenting behaviour had a significant influence on children’s dental health measured using the DEF-T index. The data were collected from questionnaires distributed to mothers during their visit to Child Health Centre and direct observation on children’s dental and oral health using the DEF-T index. Parenting style significantly affected child dental and oral health. In consideration of these results, we order the problems by priority using the nominal group technique (NGT) method. The success indicator was the active participation of mothers in discussing and asking questions about child dental and oral health
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