The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education (한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지)
- Volume 15 Issue 3
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- Pages.67-80
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- 2014
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- 1975-7697(pISSN)
A study on Anxiety Factors that College Students and Elderly People Feel during the Dental Treatment, Seoul Area
서울지역 대학생 및 장년층이 치과 진료 시 느끼는 불안요인에 관한 연구
- Lee, Yun-Hee (Department of Dental Hygiene, Kyungbok University) ;
- Yoon, Seo-Ha (Department of Dental Hygiene, Taegu Science University) ;
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Song, Jae Chul
(Department of Public Health, Graduate School Hanyang University) ;
- Song, Yun-Sin (Department of Dental Hygiene, Kyungbok University) ;
- Sim, Sang-Hyo (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University Medical Center)
- 이윤희 (경복대학교 치위생과) ;
- 윤서하 (대구과학대학교 치위생과) ;
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송재철
(한양대학교 대학원 보건학과) ;
- 송윤신 (경복대학교 치위생과) ;
- 심상효 (한양대학교병원 직업환경의학과)
- Received : 2014.10.13
- Accepted : 2014.12.26
- Published : 2014.12.31
Abstract
Objectives: This study is aimed to analyze the influential factors on the fear that college students and elderly people feel during the dental treatment and provide basic data needed to develop a plan which can lead them to have a positive perspective on dentistry. Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to 241 outpatients (39 college students, 202 elderly people) visiting dental clinic of 'K' University Hospital in Seoul from January to April, 2013. It was filled in a self-administered manner and collected right away. Results: factor analysis, three factors were configured when the factors with 1.0 or higher of eigenvalue were extracted using 19 questions through which dental fear and anxiety were measured against college students and elderly people. The questionnaires were classified into three categories: Factor I (stimulus response), Factor II (avoidance of the treatment) and Factor III (physiological response which occurs when a patient feels fear). As a result, it was confirmed that the questionnaire tool is highly feasible. In college students, the responses they felt during the dental treatment in the said three factors were as follows: 52.00% in Factor II, 14.14% in Factor II and 6.99% in Factor III (73.129% in total). In elderly people, on the contrary, they were 52.41% in Factor I, 10.57% in Factor II and 7.98% in Factor III (70.958% in total), lower than the college student group. Conclusions: This study is significant in that it confirmed complex relations between dental fear and related variables against college students and elderly people.