Website-Based Flipbook Model on Changes in Adolescents' Dental and Oral Health Care Behavior

Abstract

One of the risk factors that causes high levels of dental and oral problems is behavior. To overcome these problems, media is used as a tool, with a model website-based flipbook. It is hoped that this will be a solution to facilitate the education process to help teenagers improve their dental and oral health maintenance behavior. This research is to produce a website-based flipbook model that is feasible and its application is effective in changing the oral health care behavior of adolescents. The method used in this research is Research and Development (R&D) and the research design used is a Quasy Experiment Pretest- Posttest with a Control Group Design. Research subjects were 2 groups: The intervention of 42 people was modeled website-based flipbook control 40 people were given an animated video on dental and oral health. The research results show that website-based flipbooks are suitable as a model for improving adolescent dental and oral health maintenance behavior with expert validation results: 90.8% and p-value = 0.858. The results of the unpaired test stated that its application was effective in increasing knowledge (∆0.001), attitudes (∆0.001), actions (∆0.001), and reducing debris index scores (∆0.010) compared to the control group. The conclusion is the development of the website-based flipbook model and its implementation of effective changes in adolescent dental and oral health maintenance behavior.