Evaluation of Dental Education Through Virtual Learning and Sustainability of Dental Education for Small Dentists in The Era of Pandemic

Abstract

RISKESDAS showed that 73% of children aged 10-14 years in indonesia experienced caries, but only 9.4% received dental treatment by the dentists. Health promotion that has not been maximized as well as pandemic conditions are obstacles in increasing dental health knowledge, especially for children. In this study, two factors will be used as variables, which is  behavior and health services with an approach using the buzz group technique to elementary school students. Methods: The study was conducted on 95 students from 4 elementary schools in Malang. Started with answering the pre-test which contains knowledge about early detection of caries. Then, given training and counseling knowledge of caries early detection and ended by filling out a post test. The pre-test and post-test scores were analyzed using the t-test to determine the differences and the effect of buzz technique-based counseling on students' knowledge. Results and discussion: Based on the calculation of the analysis obtained differences. The average result of the pre-test the percentage/number of correct answers is 80.3, while the average post-test result is the percentage of correct answers is 86.8. The normality test was obtained p>0.05 so the data was normally distributed and the correlation result of the T-test p>0 was 0.915. Conclusion: There are differences and effects on training and counseling using the buzz group technique on the knowledge of early caries detection in elementary school students.