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KMID : 1002520130070020179
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Korean Journal of Health Service Management
2013 Volume.7 No. 2 p.179 ~ p.190
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Implementation Level and Factors of Parents about Dental Examination in Elementary School Children
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Choi Sung-Mi
Sakong Joon
Jang Eun-Jin
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Abstract
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This study evaluated the interest of parents of elementary school children on the examination with their memory of results, their consistency and their compliance with results sheets to improve effects of School dental health management project. This study recruited 1,334 second-, third-, fifth- and sixth-grade students at two elementary schools located in Daegu metropolitan city performing School Dental Examination Project in 2008 and investigated whether the students visited dental hospitals following results of the examination, how the parents remembered the results and how their memory was same with real results based on results of the examination, the parents’ memory of results. The parents of second- and third-grade students showed good memory of malocclusion and number of Caries and higher consistency for dental caries. The parents of fifth- and sixth-grade students showed good memory of dental caries. Visiting rates of dental hospitals accordance with grade were 75.7% due to dental caries in second- and third-grade students and 60.5% due to malocclusion in fifth- and sixth-grade students. Among students with abnormal results of the examination, 77.1% of the children with dental caries of parents having same memory with real results visited the hospitals while 52.7% of those of parents having different memory with them did.
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KEYWORD
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School Dental Examination, Dental Health Management, Elementary School Children
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