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KMID : 1023420080080040313
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Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2008 Volume.8 No. 4 p.313 ~ p.322
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Demand and Awareness of Dental Hygienists for Academic Credit Bank System According to Different Regions
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Yang Seung-Kyeong
Kim Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of dental hygienists in different regions about credit bank system and their needs for that. The subjects in this study were 312 dental hygienists in dental hospitals and clinics in Seoul, Gyeonggi province, metropolitan cities, Gangweon province and Gyeongsang province. After a survey was conducted in 2008, the collected data were analyzed with SPSS 11.5 program. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. In regard to perception of the credit bank system, 68.3 percent of the dental hygienists were cognizant of that. The dental hygienists from most of the geographic areas were aware of it, but all the forty three dental hygienists from Gangweon province who accounted for 13.8 percent didn’t know about that. As for media by which they acquired information on that, many of the dental hygienists learned about it from their acquaintances(46.2%), but that was not the case for the dental hygienists from Seoul and Gyeonggi province. 2. As for expectations for the credit bank system, those from Gyeongsang province had the greatest expectations for that in six out of nine items, which included academic or job performance improvement, acquisition of credits, degree or certificates and access to new technology. 3. Concerning educational spending on the credit bank system, 18.9 percent and 8.7 percent from Seoul/Gyeonggi province and Gangweon province spent less than 30 thousand won, and 19.9 percent from the metropolitan cities spent 30 thousand to less than 50 thousand won. 4. As for the importance of the categories of their major in the credit bank system, those from Gangweon province attached the most importance to oral health education(3.56±1.259), and the dental hygienists from the metropolitan cities put the most stress on preventive treatment (3.64±1.191).
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KEYWORD
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Academic credit bank system, Awareness of dental hygienists, Different regions
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