POLA PENDAMPINGAN KADER TERHADAP KEBERHASILAN MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN MENYIKAT GIGI PADAANAK BALITA DI KELURAHAN PEDALANGANKOTA SEMARANG

Teaching is an ongoing and systematic effort to facilitate individual or group or community of children to develop themselves. Kader is someone who is willing and able to carry out efforts to improve the health status of the community under the guidance of health officers performed on self-awareness and without any strings attached. Skills is a skill to complete a task. Brushing your teeth is an act to get rid of dirt or debris attached to the tooth surface especially after eating and before bed and will reduce the risk of dental health problems. The purpose of this research is cadre facilitation pattern to the success of improving tooth skill skill of toddler in pedalangan village.This research is a quasi experiment using pre and post test design . the population in this study were 30 children under five with sampling technique using purposive sampling. The data have been analyzed using wilcoxon sign rank test..The result of research showed that tooth skill skill of toddler before cadre assistant in bad category (63,3%) while after cadre assistance is in good category (96,7%). It can be concluded that there is a change of skill of toothbrushing of toddlers before and after cadre accompaniment with p value = 0,000.It is expected that health cadres officers can continue the method of assistance and make one of the activity program so that it can maintain the toothbrushing skills of children under five