COUNSELING WITH VIDEO MEDIA IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE MOTIVATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF DENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH IN STUDENTS

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Background: Dental and oral health is a part that cannot be separated from health in other organ systems (systematic health). One of the efforts to increase motivation and knowledge of dental and oral health among students is through counseling whose results are expected to increase children's knowledge and motivatio. It's just that many of those responsible for improving the level and education still use old or conventional methods, so there are not a few targeted activity targets that are not achieved. Objective: Knowing the effect of counseling with video media in an effort to increase motivation and knowledge of dental and oral health in grade VII students of SMPN 3 Gegesik Cirebon Regency. Method: The type of research used is quasy experiment with pre and post test design. The sample in this study was grade VII students at SMPN 3 Gegesik Cirebon Regency, totaling 31 measurements taken before and after counseling using a motivational questionnaire and knowledge of dental and oral health. Measurements were carried out before and after counseling using motivational questionnaires and knowledge of dental and oral health. Results: There is a difference between the average posttest and pretest results from Sig. (2-tailed) which is said to be significant because it has a sig value > 0.05, namely 0.000 indicating that the group has a different significance level of 5%. The motivational value obtained from the posttest data is higher than the pretest as evidenced by the posttest mean value of 78.35 and the pretest mean value of 60.38. While the value of Knowledge obtained the mean pretest result of 55.64 and the mean posttest value of 75,90. Conclusion: There is an effect of increasing motivation and knowledge after being given counseling with the media, namely the posttest data analysis is higher than the pretest. This is in accordance with the value of the posttest learning outcomes is higher than the pretest learning outcomes.