MEDIA EDUCATION E-BOOKLETS GINGIBOOKS ON GINGIVITIS KNOWLEDGE IN TEENAGERS

Abstract

Background:  The prevalence rate of gingivitis in Indonesia is quite high. One of the educational services is e-booklet media. The results of a preliminary study at SMA Negeri 1 Demak showed that 100% of students had never received dental health promotion and did not know about gingivitis. Objective: To find out the influence of gingibooks e-booklet media education on knowledge about gingivitis in adolescents. Methods: The type of quasi experimental research with a Non-equevalent control group design, sampling was conducted using simple random sampling with a total of 82 respondents. This sample was divided into 2 groups, namely the experimental and control groups. The location of the research was at SMA Negeri 1 Demak. The data collection technique used questionnaires and data analysis using wilcoxon and mann-whiteney tests. Results: The initial knowledge level of the experimental group was low (4.9%), medium (70.7%) and high (24.4%). Final knowledge with low (0%), medium (2.4%) and high (97.6%) criteria. The level of initial knowledge of the control group with low criteria (9.8%), medium (75.6%) and high 6 (14.6%). Final knowledge with low (0%), medium (36.6%) and high (63.4%) criteria. From the results of the study, there was an increase in knowledge from (70.7%), to (97.6%). The average knowledge in the experimental group was 4.29 and the control group was 2.56. The results of the Mann-Whitney Test obtained a value of p = 0.000 < 0.05. Conclusion:  There is a significant influence in the use of e-booklet media on the improvement of gingivitis knowledge in adolescents.