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KMID : 1020220240240020099
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2024 Volume.24 No. 2 p.99 ~ p.108
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Increase in dental hygienists’ competency and self-directed capacity after capstone design course on community dental hygiene
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Sim Seon-Ju
Lee Sun-Mi
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study aimed to verify the effect on students’ competency and self-directed capacity after a capstone design teaching method with community dental hygiene class.
Methods: The study participants were 34 dental hygiene students taking a 4-year community dental hygiene course at a university located in City C. The research tool consisted of 52 questions on major competency and 20 questions on self-directed capacity.
Results: After the capstone design class, overall dental hygienists’ competency increased (p<0.05), and competencies of clinical dental hygiene and community health promotion showed a high increase (p<0.001). As a result of analyzing the increase in dental hygienists’ competency according to self-directed learning ability, the group with low self-directed capacity showed high improvement in clinical dental hygiene competency and community oral health promotion competency.
Conclusions: This study confirmed that the capstone design course in community dental hygiene improved students’ competency and self-directed capacity, and suggests that it is an excellent teaching method for training competencies required for future society.
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KEYWORD
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Capstone design, Community dental hygiene, Competency, Dental hygienists, Oral health, Self-directed capacity
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