TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN CARA PEMELIHARAAN KEBERSIHAN GIGI DAN MULUT DENGAN MEDIA AUDIO DAN MEDIA LEAFLET BRAILLE PADA ANAK TUNANETRA DI SLB N SEMARANG

Dental health education is a learning process that is targeted at individualsand groups of people to achieve the degree of community dental health as high.The problem that arises is blind children in need of media to improve oral healthknowledge. Blind children take advantage of the sense of touch and hearing as asubstitute for the sense of sight in the learning process. The purpose of research isto see the level of knowledge of how the maintenance of oral hygiene in blindchildren with education using audio media and leaflet braille media.This study design using interventional analytic sample were 24 childrenwith visual impairment in SLB N Semarang using audio media and media leafletbraille. Each group was given individual counseling media, namely audio mediaand media leaflet braille. Before the students were given about counseling, pretestthen given counseling. After being given counseling students were given theposttest.The data have been analyzed using statistical test of Wilcoxon Test andMann Whitney Test.Statistical test with Wilcoxon Test showed a significant difference with pvalueof 0.003 between before and after counseling counseling with audio mediaand there is a significant difference p-value of 0.002 before and after counselingwith counseling leaflet braille media. Mann Whitney Test was used to see thelevel of knowledge of both media, the study shows the differences in the level ofknowledge with a p-value of 0.001 between groups of media education withaudio and leaflet braille media.According to the results Mann Whitney Test can be concluded the differentlevels of knowledge of how the maintenance of dental and oral hygiene inchildren with visual impairment in which audio media outreach is increasedknowledge than leaflet braille media outreach