Dental and Oral Health Education Model as an Educational Media in Improving Parental Behavior towards Persistence in the Pendang Community Health Center Work Area

Dental health is an integral part of overall health. Parental knowledge is essential in underlying the formation of attitudes and behaviors that support or do not support children's dental and oral health. Children's milk teeth are essential in the child's growth and development process. Technological developments impact society in Indonesia, particularly in the field of information and communication technology. Today's relevant media is technologically based. This research aims to produce a Dental and Oral Health Education Model as an educational model for improving parental behavior toward persistence. The study design employed is a quasi-experimental Pretest-Posttest group design, and the methodology is research and development. This study includes knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors as variables. Two groups comprised the research subjects: 22 participants received the Dental and Oral Education Model as an intervention, while 22 participants received animated video media as a control. Wilcoxon and Mann- Whitney tests were performed on the data. The validation test results were 92%, which means that the dental and oral health education model is suitable as a medium for dental health education, and the unpaired test results stated that its implementation was effective in increasing knowledge (Δ3.82), attitudes (Δ5.91), actions (Δ1.77). The Dental and Oral Health Education Model was proven to be feasible and its implementation effective as an effort to increase parental behavior toward persistence compared to the control group.