Hubungan Pengetahuan Orang Tua tentang Pemeliharaan Oral Higiene dan Diet Anak terhadap Pengalaman Karies Pada Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus di Lembaga ABK Arnhemia Kecamatan Pancur Batu

Abstract

Special needs children are at high risk of oral hygiene problems compared to normal children due to mental and physical limitations in maintaining oral hygiene. Parents' low level of knowledge of oral hygiene maintenance leads to high incidence of dental caries in the child. This study aims to understand the relationship of parents' knowledge of oral hygiene and a child's diet to special needs children. The type of research conducted is an analytical survey with cross sectional design. sampling technique using the total sampling method, The data collection was conducted by providing a questionnaire sheet to parents to see oral hygiene and diet knowledge and then conducting a oral cavity examination to see the experience of caries and filling out a check sheet on 60 children consisting of 30 boys and 30 girls. research variables tested with nonparametric statistics Kruskal Wallis. The results of this study obtained parents' level of knowledge of oral hygiene and diet in moderate-category children. The average caries experience in this study was 33 children aged 6–12 years with an average deft of 1,61±1,836 (low category) and an average DMFT 2,36±2,369 (low category) and children aged 13-17 years old have average DMFT 4,37±3764 (medium category). Kruskal-Wallis analysis tests have a significant relationship between parental knowledge of oral hygiene maintenance and caries experience (6–12 years old deft p=0,002 and DMFT p=0,024) and (13–17 years old average dmft p=0,031). and in the 6-12 year age category there is a significant relationship between parental knowledge of the child's diet and caries experience with a mean deft value of p=0,003 and with a mean DMFT value of p=0,004. And on the 13-17 year old age criteria there is also a significant relationship between parents knowledge of diet in children and experiences of caries with average DMFT at p=0,05. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant relationship between parents' knowledge of oral hygiene and diet in children as p ≤0,05.