Influence of Mind Mapping Towards Dental and Oral Hygiene Knowledge of Students

Abstract

Background: One of the efforts to improve oral health, especially in children, is to carry out educational

activities using Mind Mapping method since learning with this method is an easy way for students to

understand the information about dental and oral health in the form of pictures, symbols or keywords so

that it is interesting and does not bore students in receiving informationThe purpose of this study was to

determine the effect of education with mind mapping methods on dental and oral health knowledge of fourth

grade students MIN Mesjid Raya Kota Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

Method: This type of research is a quasi-experiment with pre and post-test design with one group design. The

research location was at MIN Mesjid Raya Kota Banda Aceh. The study was conducted with 49 respondents.

The data collection techniques was in the form of questionnaires about dental and oral health knowledge

consist of primary and secondary data. We used dependent T test with CI: 95% for data analysis.

Results: The results showed the frequency of respondents’ knowledge with mind mapping media increased

after being given education as much as 89.4% while before education was done using mind mapping methods

is as much as 12.8%. The statistical test results obtained a p-value of 0,000 (<0.05) so that there is influence

of mind mapping education on dental and oral health knowledge of the students.

Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is an influence of mind mapping education methods on students’

dental and oral health knowledge. It is suggested to teachers to increase interest in efforts to promote health

to students by increasing health education, especially regarding oral health.