Abstract
Dental health is one thing that is faced by older people not
to mention pre elderly. Loss of teeth and toothless state in
pre elderly age prevalence tends to decrease, but the condition
is still quite high in developing countries are associated
with economic conditions and low education . It is
expected to also affect a person’s interest to replace missing
teeth with denture. This study aims to prove the relationship
between level of education and economic status
of the interest in using removable partial dentures .
The research is an analytic survey with cross sectional
design and farms located in Tambak Bayan Sleman District.
The sampling technique performed in this study is
purposive sampling. Sample is 31 pre elderly people who
have lost at least 2 teeth but not wear dentures . Pre elderly
who meet the criteria are given an explanation of how to fill
out a questionnaire, and then were instructed to fill out
questionnaires about their level of education, economic
status, and interests using removable partial dentures .
Average pre elderly in Tambak Bayan Sleman District pond
secondary education ( high school ) is 48.4% , ie economic
status was 51,6 % , and has a keen interest in
using removable partial dentures is 48.4 % .Data analysis
using statistical test and the Kendall - Tau showed that the
relationship of education with an interest rate using removable
partial dentures have a significance of 0.012 ,
while the relationship between the economic status of the
interest in using removable partial dentures have a significance
of 0.001 . This indicates that the value of p < 0.05
means that Ho is rejected , so that there is a significant
correlation between level of education and economic status
of the interest using removable partial dentures on pre
elderly.
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