Doctor of Medical Sciences Develops Educational Model to Improve Dental and Oral Hygiene for Elementary School Children

 

 

Located in the third floor Postgraduate courtroom, the Doctoral Promotion exam was held with the promovenda candidate drg. Ni Wayan Mariati, M.Kes with the dissertation title “The Intervention Model Combination of Conventional Education and Motivational Interviewing Improves Knowledge Status and Decreases Dental and Oral Hygiene Index, Dental Caries Index and Gingival Index in Elementary School Children in Tomohon City, North Sulawesi” (12/8) /2022)

 

About 89% of people with cavities consist of children under 12 years of age. There are many methods of dental and oral hygiene and health intervention such as motivational interviews. Motivation interviewing was developed as an intervention style. Motivation Interviewing as an innovative intervention where a person-centred counseling approach develops.

 

Motivational interviewing requires professionals to be the most active counselors in presenting problems and offering solutions, while patients are usually able to come out of problems and make decisions.

 

This study aims to prove that the Conventional Education and Motivational Interviewing (CE-MI) Combination Model intervention can increase knowledge of dental and oral hygiene and dental and oral hygiene status as well as reduce dental caries status and gingival status in elementary school children in Tomohon City.

 

This study concludes that the CE-MI model intervention (Conventional Education and Motivational Interviewing) can increase knowledge and status of dental and oral hygiene as well as reduce dental caries status and gingival status in elementary school children grades 5 and 6 in Tomohon City.

 

The exam was led by the Deputy Dean for General Affairs and Finance, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Dr. dr. I Made Sudarmaja, M.Kes with a team of examiners:

1. Prof. Dr. dr. I Dewa Made Sukrama, M.Sc., Sp.MK (K) (Promoter)

2. Dr. dr. Dyah Pradnyaparamita Duarsa, M.Si (Copromotor I)

3. Dr. dr. Gde Ngurah Indraguna Pinatih, M.Sc, Akp. Sp.GK (Copromotor II)

4. Prof. Dr. dr. I Made Bakta, Sp.PD-KHOM

5. Prof. Dr. dr. I Made Jawi, M.Kes

6. Prof. Dr. Ir. Ida Bagus Putra Manuaba, M.Phil

7. Dr. dr. Bagus Komang Satriyasa, M.Repro

8. Dr. dr. Gede Wirya Kusuma Duarsa, M.Kes, Sp.U(K)

9. Dr. dr. Made Ratna Saraswati, Sp.PD-KEMD.,FINASIM

 

While the academic invitations are:

1. Dr. dr. Ni Wayan Winarti, S.Ked., Sp.PA

2. Dr. dr. Putu Yuliawati, Sp.M(K)

3. Dr. dr. I Putu Eka Widyadharma, M.Sc., Sp.S(K)

4. Dr. Kadek Tresna Adhi, SKM., M.Kes

5. Dr. dr. Dewa Ayu Agus Sri Laksemi, M.Sc

 

In this exam, Dr. drg. Ni Wayan Mariati, M.Kes was declared a graduate of the 356th Graduate Doctoral Program of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University with the predicate VERY SATISFACTORY.