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KMID : 1020220100100050777
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2010 Volume.10 No. 5 p.777 ~ p.788
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Oral health promotion behavior according to awareness-perception factors of dental hygiene and nonhealth-related students
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Jung Eun-Ju
Yoon Hye-Jeong
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness-perception factors and oral health promotion behavior of dental hygiene and nonhealth-related students in an effort to find out factors affecting their oral health promotion behavior.
Methods: The subjects in this study were students in the three-year-course dental hygiene and students in the
two-year-course nonhealth-related department in G college located in the city of Gwangju. After a survey was
conducted, the collected data were analyzed and compared.
Results: 1. The dental hygiene students were statistically significantly ahead of the nonhealth-related students in
perceived oral health knowledge(p<0.001), awareness of the importance of oral health(p<0.001), perceived oral health status(p<0.001) and oral health interest(p<0.001). 2. Concerning the characteristics of oral health promotion behavior, the dental hygiene students were statistically significantly better at toothbrushing(p<0.001) and the use of dental floss(p<0.001) than the nonhealth-related students. 3. Regarding factors affecting oral health promotion behavior, oral health knowledge and oral health interest were identified as the factors that impacted on oral health promotion behavior. Out of the two, oral health interest exercised a greater influence on that.
Conclusions: It seems that oral health education could motivate students to be concerned about their oral health, to acquire knowledge on that and eventually to change their oral health behavior and attitude. As for college students, oral health education provides a final chance for them to check their oral health knowledge, attitude and oral health promotion behavior before they start to work as full-fledged adults, and institutional measures should be taken to offer more intensive official oral health education.
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KEYWORD
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awareness-perception factors, dental hygiene students, nonhealth-related students, oral health promotion behavior
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