EDUCATION AND PRACTICE OF TEETH BRUSHING IN KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN AND HANDS WASHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SUMBER WULUH VILLAGE, EAST JAVA

Health is a state of health, whether physically, mentally, spiritually or socially that allows
everyone to live a productive life socially and economically. Health that needs to be
considered, especially in children, is oral and dental health, as well as hand hygiene. The
purpose of this service is to provide understanding to local children about the importance
of maintaining health and hygiene. Community service is carried out through
educational activities through poster media and practice accompanied by singing. The
method carried out in this service is in the form of filling out questionnaires. The results
of this service provide an overview of the increase in enthusiasm and increase children's
understanding of how to wash hands and brush teeth properly and correctly, so as to
obtain data carried out with normality and homogeneity tests, then proceed with paired
sample t tests using SPPS. Then the results of data analysis were obtained in the form of
significance values stating that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted, which means that
there was an influence in providing treatment before (pre test) and after (post test)
education and practice of washing hands.