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KMID : 1022620090090040715
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Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Hygiene Education
2009 Volume.9 No. 4 p.715 ~ p.725
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Behavioral changes of dental hygiene course students according to oral health knowledge
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Lee Eun-Kyoung
Nam Yong-Ok
Kim Seol-Ak
Kim Min-Ji
Han Dong-Hun
Kim Jin-Bom
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Abstract
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Objectives : The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence which the professional dental hygiene education has on the knowledge and behavioral change for oral health to the students in the departments of dental hygiene.
Methods : 771 students in the first grade and 646 students in the third grade who were attending the departments of dental hygiene from 12 colleges in Korea were surveyed. The self-administered questionnaires were distributed to the students in the colleges during May and asked them to answer the questions and then recovered them on the spot. The collected questionnaires were analyzed by using a SPSS/PC program and the difference of significance depending on the group of the students was tested by Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact probability test.
Results : In the number of eating snacks by the students during one day, 2-3 times was the highest,
irrespectively of the grade. The rate of the students brushing their teeth after snack was higher in the third-grade students(34.8%) than in the first-grade students(20.8%). As the path of acquiring oral health knowledge, all of the first-grade and third-grade students replied that their school classes had impacted them the most. The rate of toothache experience was a higher tendency in third-grade students compared to the first-grade students(p=0.116). The rate of gingival bleeding experience was lower in the third-grade students than in the first-grade students. The rate of oral prophylaxis experience was higher in the third-grade students than in the first-grade students. In the smoking rate, there was lower in the third-grade students than in the first-grade students. The rate of acknowledging smoking hazard to the periodontal health was higher in the third-grade students than in the first-grade students.
Conclusions : This study revealed that the third-grade students of dental hygiene departments who were majoring in dental hygiene had a higher perception of oral health than the first-grade students whose the dental hygiene education period was short.
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KEYWORD
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dental hygiene course, dental hygiene education, oral health behaviors, oral health education, oral health perception, smoking
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