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KMID : 1023420090090030295
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Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2009 Volume.9 No. 3 p.295 ~ p.302
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A Study on the Occupational Stress, Health Status and Somatization for Dental Hygienist
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Hong Soo-Min
Ahn Yong-Soon
Kim Hee-Kyoung
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to provide fundamental data for managing occupational stress and promoting health by investigating the factors of dental hygienists’ occupational stress and the relationship among occupational stress, health status and somatization. The subjects in this study are 281 dental hygienists who have worked at dental clinic in the metropolitan area. The findings of this study are as follows: 1. The average age of the subjects is 25.1 and the average working career is 42.8 months. 8-9 hours is the most frequent average working time as 55.5% and a 6-day workweek appears most frequently with 33.8%. 2. The total average of occupational stress is 45.24 points and out of the seven sub-factors, job demand is the highest as 56.17 points. 3. A group of working at dental university hospitals scores significantly high and a group of working over 10 hours per day scores significantly low in health status (p<0.05). 4. A group of a 5-day workweek, night and holiday duty scores 18.64 which is significantly high in somatization(p<0.05). 5. Occupational stress have slightly negative correlation (-.341, p<0.01) with health status and slightly positive correlation (.330, p<0.01) with somatization. There is a strong, negative correlation between health status and somatization(-.762, p<0.01). 6. Health status and somatization have a slightly positive correlation with every other sub-factor of occupational stress except job self-control.
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KEYWORD
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Occupational stress, Dental hygienists, Health status, Somatization
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