Abstract :
ABSTRACT
Siti Komariyah, 2015. Relations Knowledge and Attitudes of parents with
preschool dental care in kindergarten Aisyiyah Bustanul AR II
Made Lamongan. S-1 program Kepererawatan Theses Supervisor
STIKES Muhammadiyah Lamongan (1) Lilian Maghfuroh, S.Kep.,
Ns. M.Kes, Supervisor (2) Hj. Andri Tri Kusuma N, SSiT. M.Kes
Dental care has an important role in daily life. Based on the fiirst survey shown
that of the 10 childrens 3-6 years old got 4 childrensdid brush their teeth once a
day and 6 children brush their teeth twice a day. The purpose of this study is to
determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of parents with dental
care in preschoolers.
Design of this research is the analytical with cross sectional approach. Population
of 35 parents and the samples of 33 parents with simple random sampling. Data
taken with the closed questionnaire in kindergarten AisyiyahBustanul
MadeLamongan Athfal II on December 2014, with the independent variables of
the knowledge and attitudes of parents and dependent variables of dental care, the
analysis is using SPSS for Windows version 18.0 by contingency coefficient test
with p <0.05.
The test results of knowledge with dental care has correlation value obtained
0.733 0.000 with significant (p <0.05).Then testing the attitudes of parents with
dental care values obtained0.806 0.000with significant correlation (p<0.05).
The results of this study shows there are correlation between knowledge of dental
care for preschool and parent attitudes relationships with dental treatment in
preschool children with a positive correlation. Based on the results of research, to
increase the role of health workers in providing advice to parents about the care of
children's teeth, way to brush child’s teethwith good and right.
Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude of parrents, Dental Care, Preschool