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KMID : 1020220110110040453
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2011 Volume.11 No. 4 p.453 ~ p.464
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A survey on the understanding of dental homepages by students of dental hygiene departments and dental hygienists in some regions
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Kim Seon-Yeong
Oh Jung-Suk
Moon Sang-Eun
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Abstract
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Objectives:The purpose of the study is to gain some basic material for the improvement of dental clinics’homepages through a survey investigation, in which college students of Dental Hygiene Departments and Dental Hygienists in Kwangju and Cheollanamdo Province
Methods:It conducted the self-reported questionnaire survey on the Recognition Degrees of the Dental Clinics’ Homepages from May 26, 2010 to October 19 targeting 240 dental hygienists who are working for dental offices and 638 college students of Dental Hygiene Departments.
Results: 1. It was asked whether they have visited dental homepages for the recent one year; ‘yes’answers occupied 68.1%, double than ‘no’answers. 2. It was asked how much they know services provided in dental homepages; The more respondents correctly answered that there exist all these services like general information service, visitor’s book and bulletin board service, reservation service, dental information service, counseling service, and visual service. 3. All the respondents answered that the homepage of each dental clinic is closely related with the image of the clinic : freshmen showed 3.84, sophomore showed 4.03, juniors showed 4.03, and dental hygienists showed 3.88. 4. It was asked how much they know services provided in dental homepages; Are there the homepages for dental hygienists? Many of them answered that IT experts or businesses are managing the homepages in the technical respect(38.4%) and their use and general administration mainly belongs to dental hygienists(46.2%).
Conclusions: It is necessary that through the studies of dental hygienists’interest and understanding on dental homepages we have to seek the development orientation of the technical management and the way of using them, and furthermore we have to know the thoughts of patients on dental homepages, who are users of the dental informations, and find the ways of improving medical services which the patients want.
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KEYWORD
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dental clinics` homepages, knowledge, recognition degrees
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