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KMID : 1020220120120040827
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2012 Volume.12 No. 4 p.827 ~ p.837
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of dental health care in the teacher of Local children center
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Chon Jin-Eun
Choi Yeon-Hee
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of dental health care among the teachers at local children centers.
Methods: The author administered a questionnaire with 105 teachers while undergoing his/her teacher’s internship at a Local Center for Children’s Welfare in Daegu, from Feb 18th to Feb 20th, 2011. The statistical techniques as frequencies and means, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and multiple regression with the PASW 18.0 program were used to analyze the data.
Results: The knowledge, attitudes, and practice of dental health care was average 19.1 point in knowledge, average 7.8 point in attitudes, average 11.9 point practically high in gender role values. The multiple regression results related each variable to practice of dental health, the practice is significant associated to oral health education, children’s dental check-up opportunities, and the higher score attitude of dental health care. Based on the results of this study mentioned so far, the teacher’s practices of administering the oral hygiene is deemed to be influenced by the existence of their experiences in the oral hygiene educations, and their attitudes on the subject.
Conclusions: t is, therefore, just to provide an education program about dental health care of the children to the teachers on consistent base, in order to assist them to develop an appropriate attitude which would lead to better practices.
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KEYWORD
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dental health care, teacher
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