The Influence of Educative Video on Improved Personal Hygiene Directedness on Children with Retardet Mental

Abstract

Children are unique individuals and have needs based on their stages of development, starting from infants to adolescents. The developmental age ranges from infants (0–1 years) to playing or producing age (1-2,5 years), to pre-school age (2,5–5 years), to school age (5–11 years), and adolescent age (11– 18 years). Mental retardation is a condition in which mental development is imperfect and delayed characterized by inadequate skills for everyday life. Mentally retarded children have problems with motor skills. The division of mental retardation includes three categories: mild, moderate, and severe. This descriptive quantitative research determined whether video education could improve the personal hygiene of children with mental retardation with a one-group pretest-posttest. The Wilcoxon rank test with the significance of sig.2 ≤ tailed 0.05 indicates the influence of video education on the personal hygiene independence of children with mental retardation. Gender, age, and the level of mental retardation all have an influence. The study concludes that personal hygiene video education influences children with mental retardation.