Identifikasi faktor yang mempengaruhi perilaku anak dalam pemeliharaan kebersihan gigi dan mulut: Studi pada Pusat Pengembangan Anak Agape Sikumana Kota Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia

• Main Authors: Mery Novaria Pay, Sri Widiati, Niken Widyanti Sriyono
• Format: Article
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: Universitas Gadjah Mada 2017-01-01
• Series: Majalah Kedokteran Gigi Indonesia
• Subjects: motivation; children behavior; perception; attitude
• Online Access: https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/mkgi/article/view/9900

ABSTRACT: Identification of factors towards children behavior on oral health maintenance. Behavior was a result of internal and external factors such as stimulus and response. Many factors can affect of children behavior on oral health maintenance. This study aims is to identify factors affecting children behavior on oral health maintenance. The study is an observational research with a cross sectional design and all that met inclusion criteria were sampled. Questionnaires with Likert scale were used to assess attitudes, perception, motivation, and behavior variables. The questionnaires showed validity (correlation values ≥ 0.30) and reliability (alpha Cronbach ≥ 0.70).The result of multiple regression analysis showed that variables attitude (p = 0.163) did not affect significantly on the behavior. Variables perception (p = 0.017) and motivation (p = 0.006) affected significantly on the behavior. Variables of perception and motivation contribute 40.0% (R2 = 0.400) to children behavior on oral health maintenance. Motivation gave the highest contribution of 10.4% to children behavior on oral health maintenance. Conclusion research, The better and the stronger perception and motivation is the better children behavior on oral health maintenace. Attitude does not affect children behavior on oral health maintenance. Motivation has contributed greatly to the children behavior on oral health maintenance.