Distiction of Ability as Dental And Oral Health Cadres Between Santris in

Modern (PP Darul ‘Ulum) and Traditional Pondok Pesantren (PP Langitan)

Novrinda H*, Djoharnas H*, Darwita RR*, Andreas P*

* Dept.Dental Public Health & Preventive Dentistry

Universitas Indonesia

BACKGROUND

• Result of National Health Survey

1998 ���� Dental Disease Decrease

Human Productivity

• Problems in dental and oral health • Problems in dental and oral health

in Indonesia calls for serious

attention by both the government

institutions and communities, such

as Pondok Pesantren

In general, Pesantren is divided into two groups, the traditional and modern types.

1. Traditional pesantren 1. Traditional pesantren

(salafi) is a pesantren that

maintains Islamic classical

book teachings as the core

subject in the pesantren.

2. Modern pesantren (khalafi)

provide non religious subjects,

such as basic social science. By

doing so, the classical book doing so, the classical book

(kitab kuning) teachings are

slightly taught compared to the

traditional pesantren.

Health science is closely related with

Physics, Biology, Chemistry, etc.

Hence, there may be a distinction of a

santri’s (islamic scholar) ability to

understand health science. ���� This

study was conducted to get further study was conducted to get further

information about the latter.

This study attempts to compare the

ability between the santris in the

modern and traditional pesantrens as

dental and oral health cadres

Ability were measured based onprior knowledge and an increase inreceiving information, planning(making the syllabus), and DentalHealth Education / Promotion, andCommunication Skills.Communication Skills.

Respondents were santri (men) fromPP Langitan-Tuban and PP Darul‘Ulum-Jombang. Both are in EastJava

Material and Method

Respondents (samples) were 10

santris from each pesantren. A

total of 20 santris fulfilled the

inclusive criteria sample.inclusive criteria sample.

Data collection were obtained from

quessionaires (include pre test,post

test and retest 15 days after post

test) and evaluation forms

(observation in class room)

Study’s Working Sequence

1) Pre Test to determine santri’s level of

knowledge (baseline)

2) Training Santri as Dental And Oral Health

Cadres with a modul consisting of Giving

Information, Basic Dental Knowlegde, DentalInformation, Basic Dental Knowlegde, Dental

Health Promotion, and Communication.

3) Post-test and Arranging syllabus (plan of

DHE/P)

4) Santris implementing DHE/P to School

Children based on their Plan (syllabus).

5) Re-test

EVALUATION

• Ability to understand the

materials given (pre, post,

and Retest), planning and

implementing DHE, andimplementing DHE, and

Communication Skills

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Study Limitations

Quessionaires � Although

quessionaires had been revised many

times, due to lack of time, the times, due to lack of time, the

quessionaires might not be well

expected.

Referencees � Lack of Referencees

about the relationships among Dental

Health, Pesantren, and Santris.

Test

Pesantren

Before After Re-test ρ(Before -After)

ρ(After-Retest)

Table 1.

Average Mean of Traditional and Modern Santri Before, After Training, Re-test and Comparation between Them.

Traditional 25.30 66.02 71.43 0.007 0.752

Modern 31.19 53.53 50.01 0.011 0.750

ρ (1-tailed) 0.124 0.069 0.006

• This result concurred with

Surtimanah (1996), which stated

that there were significantly

different performances betweendifferent performances between

before and after training in Public

Health Educator in Indramayu, but

no differences between after-retest.

Table 2.

Average Mean of Santri’s Ability as Oral Health Cadres

and Comparation between Them

Ability

Pesantren

Arrange A

Syllabus

(Plan a

DHE)

Syllabus

Applicati

on(doing

DHE)

Communic

ation

with

Objects

Ability as Dental

/Oral Health

Cadres

Result

Category

Pesantren

Traditional 331.43 357.14 322.14 1010.71 Good

Modern 321.43 347.14 312.86 981.43 Good

ρ (1-tailed) 0.415 0.2025 0.449 0.424

• Average mean in the ability to arrange

syllabus for Traditional santris were 331.43

and Modern santris were 321.43. Both were

in Good Category and there were no

significant differences between themsignificant differences between them

(ρ=0.415). This result might be caused by

conducting the training for both Santris at

the same time, as well as the amount of time

needed to arrange syllabus.

There were no differences between the santris ability in implementing DHE

Hasan (1998) ���� Midwife students’ healthpromotion skills were poor. The differencesbetween Hasan’s result and that of thisstudy might be caused by inclusive criteriaof santri. In this study, santris with teachingof santri. In this study, santris with teaching(dakwah) experience were selected.

Noorkasiani (1996) ���� Ability in HealthPromotion from Groups WITH “Trainingand Practicing” was better than groupswith “Training only”.

There were no differences in Communication

skills for both santris and both were in Good

Category

Praptiningsih (2000) stated that the amount of

health providers in Public Health Centre

(puskesmas) with good communication skills to

mothers of children with Acute Respiratory

Disease were just 41.1 %. However, the result

from Leida’s study in Cianjur showed that were

only 9.1% of health care providers with good

communication skills

In general, both traditional and modern

santris had good ability to become Oral /

Dental Health Cadres.

This was in accordance to Praptiningsih

(2000) who concluded that there were no

significant differences between educationsignificant differences between education

and communication skills.

Hasan (1998) stated that the factor which

may contribute to Health Promotion Skills

were facilities provided by educational

institutions. This might explain the

insignificant differences between santri

CONCLUSION

Santris from Traditional Pesantren were

equal in ability to santris from Modern

Pesantren. Both santris understood the

DHE materials given as well as in arrangingDHE materials given as well as in arranging

the syllabus needed to conduct the DHE.

Hence, both santris had good

communication skills and both were in

Good Category. In the end, they qualify in

becoming Oral / Dental Health Cadres.

SUGGESTION

For practitioners, the results may be used as aconsideration in training santris (islamicscholars) as Dental Health Cadres in theirpractice.

For Policy Makers, the results could be aninput to focus on training Health Cadresinput to focus on training Health Cadresfrom Pesantren with religious approach thatmight be more acceptable by the community.

For Pesantren, the results could increase theirconfidence and motivation and thus beprepared to become (Dental) Health Cadres.

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