PENGARUH MEDIA ANIMASI KARTUN DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION (DHE) TERHADAP PERUBAHAN SKOR PLAK PADA ANAK AUTIS

• Main Authors: , TRI SULISTYORINI, , drg. Suryono, SH, PhD.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/127012/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=67253
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Child with autism is a child having a disturbance of concentration in learning, socializing and communicating with other people. Child with autism in conducting learning process need a specific media in order to make them much more understand about the learning subjects. The media known to be effective for child with autism is an audiovisual media because it affects the affective, cognitive and psychomotor skills. The audiovisual media given used a cartoon animation media that contain about how to maintain oral health. The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of a cartoon animation media towards oral health behavior shown in a plaque score measurement. Subjects were 25 cooperative students with autism in a school of autism and hyperactive Citra Mulia Mandiri, secondary school of autism Fredofios and school of autism Bina Anggita. Subjects were performed a plaque score measurement test before DHE being given, after 5 days of cartoon animation video being given, a plaque score measurement was performed in 1 to 2 weeks after watching cartoon animation. The result (p<0,05) which meant there was a different plaque score measurement in before and after 2 weeks DHE being given which can be concluded that animation media had an effect on decreasing plaque score in child with autism after DHE being given in 2 weeks.