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KMID : 1157520100060010035
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International Journal of Clinical Preventive Dentistry
2010 Volume.6 No. 1 p.35 ~ p.45
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A Comparative Appraisals for Oral Health Education Throush to Establishing the Group Toothbrushing Facilities
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Ahn Hye-Won
Jwa Su-Kyung
Ahn Sun-Ha
An Young-Hee
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Abstract
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Objective and methods: To contribute to the establishment of oral health care education system and toothbrushing education facilities for elementary school students in Korea and validate the operation, the researcher of the present study set up and operated toothbrushing education facilities for elementary school students of four schools located at jung-gu, Seoul city Seoul city and categorized into a continuously program-implementing group, a newly program-implementing group, and a control group from May 2009 to December 2009, and conducted oral health care education and toothbrushing tutoring for individuals, and estimated, compared, and analyzed students’ knowledge levels in oral health care, attitudes and behaviors toward oral health care, and satisfaction levels with toothbrushing education facilities before the education and after the education.
Results: In every group, total scores were increased after the education, and scores of the continuously program-implementing group were increased at the highest rates, 31.78% among 1st year students and 21.51% among 6th year students. Statistically, there were significant differences between levels estimated before the education and those estimated after the education in every group (p＜0.001), and there was no significant difference among schools both before the education and after education (p＞0.05). In the evaluation where segments were categorized on the basis of pedagogy, both 1st year students and 6th year students of the continuously program -implementing group recorded the highest increase rates in knowledge segment and habit segment while both 1st year students and 6th year students of the school which operated aisle-type toothbrushing education facilities and was belonged to the newly program-operating group recorded the highest increase rates in attitude segment.
Conclusion: To improve children’s oral health which is the basis of lifetime oral health care, school-based oral health education should be systematically and constantly pursued, and the existence of a toothbrushing education space affects oral health care education. On the ground, it was found that it is required to establish infrastructure for oral health care through building class-type toothbrushing education facilities and also provide constant guidance and control to students to make them acquire a habit of toothbrushing that is the most basic way to prevent oral diseases.
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KEYWORD
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oral health education, toothbrushing education
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