VIDEO COUNSELING OF DENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH KNOWLEDGE ON PREGNANT

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Background: The prevalence of Indonesian with oral health problems are dominated by pregnant women at 45.5%. The lack of knowledge resulted in 13.2% of pregnant women not doing dental care during pregnancy. Media video is used as an efforts to increase dental knowledge. Purpose: Knowing the effect of media video to increase dental health knowledge of pregnant women. Methods: A quasi experimental design with a one-group pre-test and post-test. Was taken using total sampling of 30 pregnant women. Sampling questionnaires are us to measure the knowledge of dental of pregnant women. Data analysis Wilcoxon SPSS 16.00 for windows program. Results: A total of 30 pregnant women before being given counseling with media video, 27% were good criteria, 57% were sufficient criteria, and 16% were deficient criteria. After being given counseling with media  video, 97% were good and 3% were sufficient criteria. Wilcoxon test obtained value P- Value of 0.000 <0.05, it can be concluded there is a difference between the results before and after counseling using media video. Conclusion: There is an effect of media video on the level of oral health knowledge which previously was 76% to 96%.