Abstract
This study was attempted in order to offer basic data for enhancing oral health by surveying the activity limitation realities caused by oral disease in university students and then by analyzing its relevant factors. As a result of research, university students' activity limitation experience rate accounted for 24.1%. The average number of activity limitation days stood at 0.44 day. Matters related to university students' activity limitation included housing type as for socio-demographic characteristics, and busyness in daily life, difficulty for supplying school expenses, temporal burden given using dental treatment, and difficulty for transportation given using dental treatment as for individual characteristics. In case of feeling difficulty for raising school expenses, the possibility was indicated to be high in activity limitation experience, illness experience, experience of having trouble in performing schoolwork, and schoolwork loss experience. Also, in case of feeling difficulty for transportation given using dental treatment, the possibility was indicated to be high in experiencing a trouble in performing schoolwork and a loss of schoolwork. Accordingly, a national interest and support are earnestly demanded in order to establish the more systematized oral health level and to increase oral health promotion.
본 연구는 대학생의 구강질환으로 인한 활동제한실태를 조사하고, 그 관련요인을 분석하여 구강건강향상을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도하였다. 연구결과, 대학생의 활동제한경험율은 24.1%, 평균활동제한일수는 0.44일이었다. 인구사회학적 특성에서는 주거형태, 개인적 특성에서는 일상생활의 분주도, 학비조달의 어려움, 구강진료이용 시 시간적 부담, 구강진료이용 시 교통편의 어려움이 대학생의 활동제한과 관련이 있었다. 학비조달의 어려움을 느끼는 경우에서 활동제한경험 및 와병경험, 학업수행지장경험, 학업손실경험의 가능성이 높게 나타났으며, 또한 구강진료이용 시 교통편의 어려움을 느끼는 경우에서 학업수행지장 및 학업손실을 경험할 가능성이 높게 나타났다. 이에 보다 체계화된 사회적 구강건강도를 확립하고, 구강건강증진을 높이기 위한 국가적 관심과 지원이 절실히 요구된다.
