Tedi's Behavior Change Model as an Efforts for Brushing Teeth Behavior in Preschool Children

Abstract

Background
Dental health problems in Preschool is higher than primary school, it is because children are not capable of independent activity in brushing teeth. Proper behavior change strategies can be done by providing dental health education by parents and teachers using customized learning methods and media development. Model tedi's behavior change is a learning model brushing teeth in efforts to establish the behavior of brushing teeth with a time of 10 days.
Aim
Tedi's behavior change model of behavior is effective against the formation of preschool children brushing their teeth
Method
Research and Development (R & D) and test the model using quasy experimental pretest and posttest with control group design. Preschoolers research subjects were divided into 2 groups: 1. Intervention tedi's model of behavior change 10 days 2. Model 21-day brushing teeth as controls. The independent variables: tedi's model of behavior change and the dependent variable: behavior behavior brushing teeth (knowledge and action) preschool children. Data were tested using intraclass test correlation coefficient, wilcoxon and man whitney.
Results
Implementation tedi's behavior change model of 10 days to be equally effective with 21 days of brushing teeth models to increase knowledge (p= 0.095) and this model is more effective against the actions of brushing teeth (p= 0.049) than the control group.
Conclusion
Implementation tedi's behavior change model effective against the formation of preschool children brushing teeth.