PERSONAL HYGIENE BEHAVIOR WITH ORAL HYGIENE STUDENTS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

Personal Hygiene is a person's self-care, such as bathing, toileting, general hygiene, and grooming.  Oral hygiene can be done by brushing your teeth using toothpaste to clean plaque and can reduce bacteria that cause bad breath.  Purpose: This study was to determine the relationship between personal hygiene behavior and oral hygiene of grade 1 students at SMP Plus Amanah Muhammadiyah Islamic Boarding School Tasikmalaya City.  Method: using analytical descriptive design.  The population of all elementary school children aged 14-15 years at SMP Plus Pesantren Amanah Muhammadiyah Tasikmalaya City was 40 people with purposive sampling using sampling.  The measuring instrument of the study was a personal hygiene questionnaire and a hygiene index examination sheet format.  Data analysis technique using chi square test.  Results: examination of the hygiene index on students aged 14-15 years mostly with good criteria as many as 13 people (32.5%), poor criteria as many as 27 people (67.5%), and personal hygiene results get good criteria results as many as 19 (47.5%), the criteria are less than 21 (52.5%).  The results of the chi square statistic test for the personal hygiene behavior variable on the hygiene index examination obtained p-value: 0.000 < 0.05.  Conclusion: there is a relationship between personal hygiene and the hygiene index at SMP Plus Amanah Muhammadiyah Islamic Boarding School Tasikmalaya City.