The Influence of Mind Mapping Method in Dental Hygiene Education towards Knowledge of Primary School Students in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Background: One of the efforts to improve dental hygiene in children is to carry out educational activities. Mind mapping is among the types of an easy way for primary school students to understand the information through interesting pictures, symbols, or keywords that do not bore the students. The aim of study is to determine the influence of dental hygiene education with mind mapping method towards the knowledge of primary school students, specifically fourth-graders inIslamic Elementary School (MIN) of Mesjid Raya Kota Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Method: This type of research is a quasi-experiment with pre and post-test design with one group design. The study was conducted with 49 respondents. The data collection techniques was in the form of questionnaires about dental and oral hygiene knowledge. Having CI: 95% for a dependent T-test enabled us to do the data analysis. Results: The comparison value has been found that after the implementation of the mind mapping method, 89.4% of the student's knowledge increased. Comparing to that of before using mind mapping, there was just 12.8%. The result has further strengthened our confidence that there is an increase in students' knowledge by mind mapping methods for dental hygiene education. Furthermore, the statistical test results obtained a p-value of 0.000 (<0.05) which confirms the presence of influence. Conclusion: On combining the results, we conclude that there is an influence of the mind mapping method towards dental hygiene knowledge of the students.