Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Knowledge is the result or manifestation of sensing towards a particular object. knowledge can be one of the factors that influence behavior. child behavior in dental treatment is a response to the stimulus child during treatment and habits that carried the child everyday. the aim of this study was to know about prevalences of children knowledge and behavior in dental treatment at rsgm unsyiah banda aceh. the research method was descriptive. the subjects were 62 people. the results showed that a low knowledge of pediatric patients were 4 people (6.5%), subjects with moderate knowledge were 14 people (22.6%), and subjects with high knowledge were 44 people (71.0%). as for the behavioral observations showed that there was no one subject with very negative behavior, subjects with negative behavior were 6 people (9.7%), subjects with a positive behavior were 26 people (41.9%), and subjects with very positive behavior were 30 persons (48.4%). based on these results, it was concluded that the majority of pediatric patients already have high knowledge of oral health and have very positive behavior during dental treatment . keywords : knowledge, behavior, pediatric patients at rsgm unsyiah