Jusoh, Wan Nur Azwani Wan
(2008)
Pengetahuan, sikap dan praktis
kebersihan oral dalam kalangan
pelajar sekolah rendah dl daerah
Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
Other.
Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
(Submitted)
Abstract
The increasing of awareness of self-appearance make the oral care was
one of the important parts of overall health status. The awareness of oral care
should be manure as early as possible among the school students. The
knowledge, attitude changes and the practices of oral care must start at home,
at school, at hospital or everywhere as the awareness of oral care among
school students is still in moderate level. The aim of these studies is to evaluate
the level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of oral care among
schoolchildren as well as to identify the factors that determine these variables.
These cross-sectional study was involved by two hundred and thirty two (n =
232) of primary school students year one which were chosen from the list of the
school which participated in the dental service in the area of Kota Bharu,
Kelantan. This study is conducted in two schools in Kota Bharu, Kelantan,
including Sekolah Kebangsaan Ismail Petra 1, and Sekolah Kebangsaan
Kubang Kerian 3. The researcher used self-administered questionnaire as the
instrument. The respondent answered the questionnaire by the help of the
researcher. The result from the Chi-Square test shows that there was a
statistically significant difference in the level of knowledge on practicing of oral
care among primary school students. The mean score and standard deviation of
the level of knowledge on practicing of oral care among primary school students
was 1.69 (SO = 0.46). The a-value is 0.019 where p < a (0.05) shows that null
hypothesis is rejected in the study. The result from the study shows that the
level of knowledge among primary school students was in moderate level in
practicing of oral care. The test of Chi-Square on attitudes also showed that the
p value < a (0.05) which was 0.000. The result shows that there was a
statistically significant difference of attitudes on practicing of oral care among
primary school students. The mean score and standard deviation of attitude
was 2.30 (SD = 0.460). According to the result, the attitude was neutral and it
influenced the good practicing of oral care among primary school students. As a
conclusion, the finding of this study will be the first step to improve the practice
of oral care among primary school students in the future. The teaching of health
education in school curriculum and the implementation of school-programmed
need to be attention by the Ministry of Health. Thus, the schools, the Ministry of
Health, government and non-government should give more attention focusing
on the important of oral care among primary school students.
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