Margaretha Mogi Wewo, - (2009) Hubungan Pengetahuan Dan Sikap Ibu Tentang Cara Perawatan Gigi Dengan Kejadian Karies Gigi Pada Anak di SD Nangahale DOI Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Waigete Kab. Sikka Propinsi NTT. Skripsi thesis, UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA.

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Abstract

Dental caries is a disease in the dental hard tissue namely enamels, dentin and temporary. Caries is occurred because bad behavior in the dental care. Therefore it is necessary any information / knowledge about it that make mother’s attitude become positive in supporting or prohibiting the incidence of dental caries risk. The purpose of this research is to identify the correlation between mother’s knowledge and attitude about dental care method with the incidence of dental caries in elementary students of SD Nangahale Doi. This research used Analytical design by Cross Sectional with population number was 193. Total sample was 67 respondents that were collected according to inclusion criteria. Sample was collected with purposive sampling technique. The independent variables are mother’s knowledge and attitude about dental care method and the dependent variable is dental caries incidence. Daa was collected by using questionnaire and analyzed with Rank Spearman test with α = 0,05. Analysis result indicated knowledge with caries incidence p = 0,000, attitude with caries incidence p = 0,000. It’s indicated that knowledge and attitude has correlation with caries incidence. It is caused by mother’s education, level, information that is obtained by mother, and negative behavior of mother. Research result indicated correlation between mother’s knowledge and attitude on dental caries incidence in the children. Therefore, health officers are expected to improve health promotion efforts about dental care through the existing PKK – means in the society.

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