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KMID : 1023420090090020169
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Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2009 Volume.9 No. 2 p.169 ~ p.179
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A Study on the Health Status of Dental Technicians by Todai Health Index(THI)
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Kwon Soon-Suk
Moon Hee-Jung
Shin Myong-Suk
Kim Yoon-Shin
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Abstract
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This study aims to present a fundamental data base to figure out the mental and the physical conditions that the dental technicians are facing and ultimately to develop a health care program to deal with their health related problems. To this end, we took an analysis on the health status among the subjects of 895 dental technicians currently working at the dental lab around the nation from January 15 to March 31, 2009 by way of Todai Health Index(THI). Of the average scale point in accordance with 12 scale scores of the physical and the mental subjective symptom, the results revealed that the physical appeals (21.10) were higher than the mental appeals (18.49) and the multiple subjective symptom was marked as 38.44 followed by the mental irritability (25.92). In gender differences, the females proved to be higher than the males in both physical appeals and mental appeals while the physical appeals were dominant in both genders. The physical appeals were higher than the mental appeals with regard to the general characteristics. In the case of the group of age twenties as shown in the physical and mental average scale point, the other groups showed 21.55% of the physical appeals among the married whereas the mental appeals showed the highest point as 18.70 in the unmarried group. In job position, the other groups marked the highest, in working condition, below average group marked the highest, in frequency of break time, none group marked the highest. We drew a conclusion form this study that the dental technicians gained the higher points in the item of the multiple subjective symptom, the mental irritability, and the irregular life. More research on this phenomena should be followed along with the development of various and practical health care programs to promote the health of dental technicians.
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KEYWORD
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Dental technician, Health status, Todai health Index, THI
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