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The Effectiveness of the Instruction Media: Animation Promotes Oral Health Knowledge of Grade 1-3 Students in Bangkok
Objectives: To evaluate and compare the knowledge related to dental caries after watching the animation among primary school students
Methods: A 5-minute animation clip video, “Jumbo, a little boy with toothache”, about the cause of dental caries and its prevention was developed and presented to the Grade1 to Grade3 students of Prathomnonsri school by their teachers. The knowledge of students was repeatedly assessed by a 6-question questionnaire: 1) pre-test; 2) immediately post-test; and 3) 1-month post-test. The scores were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Cochran’s Q test, ANOVA/Welch test and repeated-measures ANOVA (RM ANOVA) using IBM SPSS for windows version 22.0 (IBM Corp., USA)
Results: A total of 116 students, 55 boys (47.41%), were completed the study. The 36, 36 and 44 students studied in Grade1, Grade2 and Grade3, respectively. The results showed a significant increase in average scores (SD) of all students for knowledge related to cause of dental caries and its prevention from 4.34 (1.22) to 4.85 (1.16) and 5.17 (0.99); Welch (2, 228.08) = 16.09, p-value <0.001. Prior to watching the video, Grade1-3 participants revealed similar average knowledge scores (SD) at pre-test, 4.35(1.28), 4.29 (1.21) and 4.37 (1.20), respectively. At pre-test, immediately post-test and 1-month post-test, the Grade1 (4.35 (1.28), 5.50 (0.81) and 5.76 (0.64)) indicated the most increasing trend of knowledge score while the Grade2 (4.29 (1.21), 4.36 (1.05), and 4.76 (0.96)) and Grade3 ((4.37 (1.20), 4.73 (1.26), and 5.02 (1.05)) revealed the similar knowledge scores at different time points. (Scheffe test; p>0.05).
Conclusions: The animation video clip can increase knowledge related to dental caries and it tends to increase with time. The Grade1-3 participants similarly revealed increasing trend of knowledge by the increasing time but Grade1 score was statistically significant different to the scores of Grade2 and Grade3
Methods: A 5-minute animation clip video, “Jumbo, a little boy with toothache”, about the cause of dental caries and its prevention was developed and presented to the Grade1 to Grade3 students of Prathomnonsri school by their teachers. The knowledge of students was repeatedly assessed by a 6-question questionnaire: 1) pre-test; 2) immediately post-test; and 3) 1-month post-test. The scores were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Cochran’s Q test, ANOVA/Welch test and repeated-measures ANOVA (RM ANOVA) using IBM SPSS for windows version 22.0 (IBM Corp., USA)
Results: A total of 116 students, 55 boys (47.41%), were completed the study. The 36, 36 and 44 students studied in Grade1, Grade2 and Grade3, respectively. The results showed a significant increase in average scores (SD) of all students for knowledge related to cause of dental caries and its prevention from 4.34 (1.22) to 4.85 (1.16) and 5.17 (0.99); Welch (2, 228.08) = 16.09, p-value <0.001. Prior to watching the video, Grade1-3 participants revealed similar average knowledge scores (SD) at pre-test, 4.35(1.28), 4.29 (1.21) and 4.37 (1.20), respectively. At pre-test, immediately post-test and 1-month post-test, the Grade1 (4.35 (1.28), 5.50 (0.81) and 5.76 (0.64)) indicated the most increasing trend of knowledge score while the Grade2 (4.29 (1.21), 4.36 (1.05), and 4.76 (0.96)) and Grade3 ((4.37 (1.20), 4.73 (1.26), and 5.02 (1.05)) revealed the similar knowledge scores at different time points. (Scheffe test; p>0.05).
Conclusions: The animation video clip can increase knowledge related to dental caries and it tends to increase with time. The Grade1-3 participants similarly revealed increasing trend of knowledge by the increasing time but Grade1 score was statistically significant different to the scores of Grade2 and Grade3