THE DIFFERENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF ANIMATED AND NON-ANIMATED MOVIES ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHILDREN’S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES ABOUT DENTAL HEALTH

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THE DIFFERENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF ANIMATED AND NON-ANIMATED MOVIES ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHILDREN’S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES ABOUT DENTAL HEALTH Isha Winda Sandya1, Sri Widati1 1Departemen Promosi Kesehatan dan Ilmu Perilaku, Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia Alamat Korespondensi: Isha Winda Sandya Email : Isha.sandya17@gmail.com ABSTRACT According to Basic Health Research 2013, 28.9% of the age group of less than 12 years old, i.e. age 5-9 years old, suffered dental caries. The aim of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of animated movies and nonanimated movies in improving children’s knowledge and behavior concerning dental health. This study was designed based on quasi experimental design. The samples of this study were the students of Class 3A and Class 3B of SDN 03 Kepanjen consisting of 63 students. The independent variables of this study were animated and nonanimated movies concerning dental health, whereas the dependent variables were children’s knowledge and attitudes. The collected data were analyzed using Mann Whitney test. The findings of this study showed that the respondents were aged between 8 and 10 years old, and there was no difference in terms of students’ knowledge before and after they received intervention through animated and non-animated movies. Animated movie seemed to be more effective in improving the respondents’ knowledge to maintain dental health than non-animated movie as indicated by the average score for animated movie intervention which was higher than non-animated movie intervention. Keywords: animated movie, non-animated movie, dental health, knowledge