1. The track of their major made a statistically significant difference to their toothbrushing method(p＜0.01). 37.0% of the health-related majors and 14.6% of the health-unrelated majors used the rolling method, which was the right way of toothbrushing. There was a statistically significant difference between the health-related and health- unrelated majors in tongue cleaning as well(p＜0.01). 86.0% of the former and 48.5% of the latter cleaned their tongues. In addition, there was a statistically significant intergroup gap in scaling experience (p＜0.01). The rates of the health-related and healthunrelated majors who had ever had their teeth scaled respectively stood at 60.0% and 38.8%.
2. As for the question about education experience on oral health care including toothbrushing, 59.0% of the health-related majors and 39.8% of the health-unrelated majors had ever received that education, and the disparity between the two was statistically significant (p＜0.01). In regard to the necessity of oral-health education, 53.0 % of the health-related majors and 52.4% of the health-unrelated majors felt the need for that, and the intergroup gap was statistically significant(p＜0.01).
3. As a result of investigating their needs for oral-health education, 62.0% of the health-related majors found it advisable to receive oral- health education on a regular basis, and that rate of the healthrelated majors was higher than that of the health-unrelated majors who had the same opinion. The largest number of the health-unrelated majors who accounted for 51.5% asked for regular dental checkup, and the gap between the health-related and nonrelated majors was statistically significant in that regard(p＜0.01).
The above-mentioned findings showed the strong needs of the college students for oral-health
education, and more intensive oral-health education should be provided for college students to promote their oral health.
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