The Effectiveness of Website-Based Telehealth E-Module in Increasing Dental Health Knowledge in Health Cadres

Abstract

The distance of the health center is one of the obstacles that causes some people not to visit the health center and the location of the health center far from people's homes is the cause of the lack of visits for patients for treatment or visits for consultation about their health. There is no dental health telepromotion module that can be used to make it easier for health cadres to provide dental health knowledge to the community, which is the main priority for the success of health services. The web- based E-Module is expected to be an information medium for cadres and the community in dental and oral health services. This research aims to produce a proper and effective dental and oral health E-Module in increasing cadre knowledge as well as an E-Module that will be used in disseminating information to the public. This research method uses Research and Development. The expert validation test for the E-Module obtained a p-value of 0.037 which shows that it is feasible as an E-Module in dental and oral health services. The test results on 30 Integrated Service Post (Posyandu) cadres showed that the p-value before and after the implementation of the E- Module in the aspect of pretest and posttest knowledge was P<0.041. This shows that there is a difference in the value of pretest and post-test knowledge so that there is a difference in the effectiveness of the implementation of the E-Module on cadres.