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PENGETAHUAN TENTANG KARIES GIGI SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH PENYULUHAN KESEHATAN DI PERGURUAN ADVENT CIMINDI BANDUNG

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ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE OF DENTAL CARIES BEFORE AND AFTER HEALTH EDUCATION IN PERGURUAN ADVENT CIMINDI BANDUNG MESRINA SIMBOLON 1651023 Results of a preliminary study conducted by researchers at the 10 students 4th grade in Cimindi Bandung Adventist University, they do not know what it is dental caries and what causes, even 5 of them experienced dental caries.This study aims to determine the extent of knowledge about dental caries in Cimindi Bandung Adventist University. The research design used in this research is quantitave design with pre-post test in one group (pre-post test design).This research was conducted in Cimindi Bandung Adventist University on October 31, 2017. The population in this study were all students grade 4 in Perguruan Advent Cimindi academic year 2017/2018. Sample used in this study is total sampling. The number of samples in this study were 43 people. Data was collected using a test consisting of 12 questions with the validation value and reliability. Validation value between 0.446 to 0.707 and the value of reliability is 0.859. The collected data is then processed using a percentage formula and hypothesis testing by paired t-test using SPSS. The calculations result show that knowledge about dental caries before health education is enough with the percentage 74.4%. Knowledge after health education is good with percentage 92.7%. The results of this study showed a significant differences in knowledge about dental caries in Perguruan Advent Cimindi Bandun before and after health education with t-count 5.920 at 95% level confidence or α = 0.05. Keywords: knowledge, dental caries