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KMID : 1002420130140030001
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Journal of Korea Society for School Health Education
2013 Volume.14 No. 3 p.1 ~ p.14
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Factors influencing oral health-related quality of life in health allied college students
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Park Hee-Jung
Lee Jun-Hyup
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible impact factors(oral health level, oral health promotion behaviors, health level, health behaviors, and mental health) on oral health related quality of life using OHIP-14 of health allied college students.
Methods: A total of 363 self-administered questionnaires were collected from university student in Seoul. To investigate the casual relationship between each variable presented in the research model, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA(Scheffe’s test), man-whitney, kruskal wallis, multiple regression analysis were carried out by using
SPSS ver. 21.0
Results: The study shows that the students reported mean score of OHIP-14 (8.32±7.51), of which physical pain was the highest score(1.88±1.45) and social disability was the lowest score(0.69± 1.13). Multiple regression revealed that the score of OHIP-14 was shown to be significantly higher for the following people: who were get more self-reported symptom of periodontitis, halitosis, negative self-perceived general health and oral health, no received dental scaling treatment, and participants who had no experience awareness of distress in two weeks. The explanatory power was 18.2%. The most powerful factor regarding to self-reported symptom of periodontitis was shown to be negatively relations oral health-related quality of life.
Conclusions: In order to enhance the students’ life quality, there need to be considered for a comprehensive oral health-related quality of life program for the students through health education policy.
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KEYWORD
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Health allied college students, Multiple regression, Oral health-related quality of life
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