• 치위생과학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.127-131
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• 2006

치위생과 실습환자의 구강건강관리 실태를 알아보기 위하여 2004년 9월 2일부터 2005년 5월29일까지 S대학 치위생과에 내원한 스켈링 실습환자를 대상으로 하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 연구대상자의 일반적인 특성은 성별에서 남자가 138명(55.4%)이고 여자가 111명(44.6%)으로 나타났다. 주거지는 충청도가 181명(72.7%)이고 인천경기가 55명(22.1%)이며 서울이 13명(5.2%)로 나타났다. 연령은 19-29세가 122명(49.0%), 40-49세가 45명(18.1%), 50-59세가 42명(16.9%), 30-39세가 25명(10.0%), 60-70세가 15명(6.0%) 순으로 나타났다. 스켈링 경험은 144명(57.8%)이 있고 105명(42.2%)이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 2. 구강건강관리는 잇솔질 방법에서 횡마법이 164명(65.9%)이고, 회전법은 63명(25.3%)이며, 종마법은 22명(8.8%)순으로 나타났다. 잇솔질 횟수는 2회가 134명(53.8%), 3회 이상이 99명(39.8%), 1회가 16명(6.4%)순으로 나타났다. 잇솔질 시기는 식사 후가 182명(73.1%)이고, 식사 전이 67명(26.9%)순으로 나타났다. 구강보조용품은 40명(16.1%)이 사용하고 있고, 209명(83.9%)이 사용하지 않는다 라고 응답하였다. 3. 성별에 따른 잇솔질 방법은 남자와 여자 모두 횡마법을 가장 많이 하는 것으로 나타났으며 남자는 여자보다 횡마법과 종마법을 더 많이 사용하고 여자는 남자보자 회전법을 더 많이 사용하는 것으로 나타났다. 잇솔질 횟수에서 남자는 2회를 59.4%로 가장 많이 하고 여자는 3회 이상이 50.5%로 가장 많이 하는 것으로 나타났다. 잇솔질 시기는 남자의 33.3%가 식사 전에 잇솔질을 하고, 여자는 81.1%가 식사 후에 잇솔질을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 4. 거주지에 따른 잇솔질 방법은 충청도, 인천경기, 서울 모두 횡마법을 가장 많이 하고 있고, 종마법을 가장 적게 하는 것으로 나타났다. 구강보조용품은 인천경기지역에서 가장 많이 사용하고 충청도 지역에서 가장 적게 사용하는 것으로 나타났다. 잇솔질 횟수는 세 지역 모두 2회가 가장 많은 것으로 나타났다. 5. 연령에 따른 잇솔질 횟수는 30-39세만 3회 이상 잇솔질을 하는 것으로 나타났고, 나머지 연령에서는 2회를 가장 많이 하는 것으로 나타났다. 스켈링 경험에 따른 구강보조용품 사용여부는 스켈링 경험이 있을수록 구강보조용품을 사용하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국학교보건학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.205-218
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• 2002

Objectives : Because elementary school children are sensitive and prevalent to dental caries, oral health care program for the elementary school children (ESOHCP) should be met the first priority for the national oral health care program. This study was performed to proposed the guidelines for executing the efficient ESOHCP through the evaluation of present oral health care and education status based on the attitudes and opinions of health teachers. Methods : Subjects were 181 health teachers those are a part of the total 273 elementary school health teachers in Busan. From April to June 2001, questionnaire survey on the teacher's attitude and opinion, present status of oral health care and education in their own school was done. Data was analyzed by $\chi^2$-test, t-test, ANOVA using SAS (ver 6.21) program. Results : Mean age of the teachers was 40 years (24~58 years) and mean scale of the subject school was 32 classes (5~58 classes). Above 90% of them agreed with the necessity and importance of ESOHCP, but actual level of concerning was lower. They gained the informations about oral health mainly from media (33%), PC net (26%), academic society (25%), and more used internet (p=0.012) in younger generation. Though most of them (96%) had a specified school dentist, only 58% had the experience of periodic oral health examinations in their own school. The major experienced ESOHCP was fluoride brushing and contest to choose the best healthy teeth. Oral health education given by the teachers was not professional but their own. About half (42%) of the teachers had never taken education during last one year. Major education materials were VTR tape (79%), teeth model (64%), CD (55%), booklet (50%), etc., and the teachers' preference was also VTR tape (43%) and CD (41%). When they need education materials, they frequently request to dentist's association (36%), academic society (35%), but rarely to dental clinics or dentists (6%). They prefer that two times (46%) of annual oral health education, with the contents of regular brushing (53%), but lower regular visit to clinics (13%). The interest to oral health care (p=0.016) increased with teacher's age. And, they agreed regular students education in case of higher interest(p=0.044). Intention about join in the model school program was decreased with scale of school (p=0.002). Conclusions : This result showed that the present status of ESOHCP is still insufficient. It considered that the health teachers' interest and role is most important for the maintenance and success of ESOHCP. The professional and efficient education program would be focused on the health teachers to induce drive on ESOHCP.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2013

This study aimed to explore possible relationships between self-efficiency and intention to leave in dental hygienists so as to provide basic data for developing solutions to effectively manage dental hygienist man power. A total of 206 dental hygienists from different dental care institutions in Cheonbuk Province were chosen as subjects by a convenience sampling method. Data were collected through a self-reported survey. The results were as follows. The self-efficiency was higher among dental hygienists who were more than 36 years of age, had graduated university, were at their cuurent job longer than 11 years, and reported their annual income to be more than 25 million won. As their age was younger and their education and income levels were lower, their intention to leave was stronger. Also subjects who were unmarried, did not feel satisfaction with their current job, and did not want to stay any longer at the location where they were currently working tended to have higher intention to leave. The higher their self-efficiency, the lower their turnover intention. An examination of the three factors offered by a factor analysis on self-efficiency, 1) sense of competence, 2) sense of confidence, and 3) strong drive, revealed that the higher their sense of competence, the lower their turnover intention. It was also revealed that their self-efficiency had a significant influence on their turnover intention and the most influential factor was their sense of competence.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.644-658
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• 2009

Objectives : This study was to find out the status of job satisfaction and intent to leave the job for dental hygienists, and those factors affecting their intent to leave, so as to prevent dental hygienists from leaving their jobs in advance, and to strive for extending the life span of the job, contributing to improve dental care services provided by dental hygienists. Methods : The data were collected from 280 dental hygienists working in dental clinics or hospitals in Busan and Gyeongnam area by using a structured and self-administered questionnaire through mail, from February 1 to March 15, 2009, and were analyzed by using SPSS WIN 14.0 program. Results : First, It was the most prevalent for the dental hygienists surveyed to be between 100 to 149 thousand won in the level of monthly as 42.3%, and to be the assistance of dental examination and treatment for main duty as 62.5%. Leaving job was experience by 51.6% of the subjects, with work condition as the most common reason for 32.2%. Second, the degree of job satisfaction was 3.4 points overall in the score of 5 point Likert's scale on the average, showing affirmative level above the average, and significantly different according to certain characteristics such as age, education level, total years of work career, years of work career in the current job, monthly salary level, whether to provide monthly paid leave, and the number of patients treated per day. It also was significantly correlated with some structural factors and variables consisting attitude and value, including equity in pay(r=0.612), job perception as dental hygienist(r=0.573), work environment(r=0.552), self growth(r=0.531), affirmative attitude(r=0.421), and so on. Third, the mean score of intent to leave was 2.73 overall and lower than the average, showing significant relationship with some characteristics, such as age, marital status, education level, total years of work career, years of work career in the current job, monthly salary level, whether to provide monthly paid leave, and the number of patients treated per day. Intent to leave also showed the highest correlation with job satisfaction(r=-0.708), followed by equity in pay(r=-0.482), self growth (r=-0.453), job perception as dental hygienist(r=-0.392), work environment(r=-0.362), etc. Forth, job satisfaction was significantly influenced by some factors including equity in pay, followed by job perception as dental hygienist, relationship with fellow colleagues, affirmative attitude and work environment, and so on. Fifth, the intent to leave was significantly affected not only by job satisfaction but also by some structural factors including equity in pay, self growth and job perception as dental hygienist. Conclusions : The above results showed that the equity in pay was the most important factor for the intent to leave the job as well as job satisfaction among dental hygienists, thus suggesting that systematic measures should be provided to improve the job satisfaction to prevent economic loss due to leaving job frequently, and to provide pertinent reward system as a profession to enhance the motivation for accomplishment on job for dental hygienists.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.401-409
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• 2018

본 연구는 2017년 1월부터 5월까지 일부지역치과에 내원하는 성인들을 대상으로 구강건강관리행태와 주관적 건강 인식수준을 파악하고 치과공포감에 미치는 영향요인을 파악하여 치과공포감을 낮추기 위한 기초자료를 마련하고자 한다. 치과공포에서 회피요인은 여자, 40대, 고졸이하, 주부, 300-399만원, 생리적 반응요인은 여자, 40대, 주부, 200-299점, 자극유발유인 여자, 30대, 주부, 전체공포수준은 30대, 주부, 400-499만원에서 높았다. 구강건강관리행태에 따른 공포감에서 치료회피요인은 구강검진을 하지 않고, 칫솔질방법이 틀린 경우, 생리적 반응요인과 자극반응요인은 검진을 하지 않고, 스케일링 경험이 없는 경우, 전체공포감은 검진을 하지 않고, 칫솔교환시기가 4개월 이상인 경우에서 치과공포감이 높았다. 치과공포에 영향을 미치는 주관적 건강인식수준, 주관적 구강건강인식수준, 성별, 나이, 정기검진유무, 구강보건교육 경험유무가 영향을 미쳤다. 따라서 치과공포감을 줄이기 위해서는 주관적 인식을 개선하고 정기검진과 구강보건교육을 위한 시스템이 마련되어야 할 것이다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between asthma and dental caries by using data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES), from 2013 to 2015. Methods: The study included 11,731 subjects who were ${\geq}19$ years of age and analyzed their demographic-, socioeconomic-, health-, and oral health care-related data. The chi-squared test and logistic regression analysis were conducted using complex sample analyses to examine the relationship between asthma and dental caries. Results: Compared with the control group, the risk for dental caries in the asthma group was 1.207 times higher, regardless of various confounding factors (p<0.001). In the asthma group, the mean DMFT score was significantly higher than that in the control group (p<0.001). After adjusting for confounding factors, the mean number of DMFT in subjects with asthma was 7.67, which was higher than that in subjects without asthma (7.28) (p<0.001). Conclusions: The study results show that asthma may be a risk factor for dental caries. Therefore, in order to prevent dental caries in asthma patients, oral hygiene education is important.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2008

본 연구는 치과위생사들의 의료사고 및 의료분쟁에 대한 인식정도를 파악하고자 치과에서 근무하고 있는 치과위생사 206명을 대상으로 설문조사 하였으며, SPSSWIN 14.0을 이용하여 분석한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 환자의 불만 불평 경험은 연령에서는 21-23세 39.2%, 경력에서는 1년 미만 30.4%가 가장 높게 나타나 연령과 경력이 낮을수록 불만 불평 경험이 더 있는 것으로 나타났다. 2. 환자의 문제제기 건수의 항목은 스켈링 관련이 14.5%로 가장 높았고, 진단관련 14.4%, 인상채득관련 12.9%, 방사선사진 촬영관련 11.0% 순으로 나타났다. 3. 치과위생사의 스켈링 진료에 대한 예방 및 인식에 있어 스켈링 후 환자기록부에 대한 기록여부는 '한다' 90.8%, 기록에 대한 방법은 본인이 직접 진료내용 기록 후 서명하는 경우가 34.5%로 가장 많았으며, 주의사항 설명시 방법은 인쇄물 없이 설명하는 경우가 82.5%로 나타났다. 4. 의료관계법에 대한 지식정도는 총 16점 기준에 12.34점으로 나타났다. 5. 의료사고에 대한 예방 및 대책과 관련된 교육의 필요성은 70.4%가 매우 필요하고 시급하다가 응답하였다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2014

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of dental hygienists in public health center towards multicultural family and educational needs to provide information on community oral health programs. Methods : The subjects were 74 recruited from 126 dental hygienists in 14 public dental clinics in Jeonbuk Province. A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 64 dental hygienists in charge of dental health care. Data were anlatzed by the statistical package SPSS WIN 12.0. Results : The characteristics of the subjects had no impact on their positive multicultural awareness, and there existed differences by age, rank and period of services in the channel of information acquisition. They got 3.5 out of five in multicultural awareness showing a positive way. The types of medical services for multicultural family revealed that they provided oral health education, dental checkup services and simple treatment covered by health insurance. Health insurance accounted for 15.4 percent of dental services. The obstacles to dental services in multicultural family were communication problems, poor concern for oral health and cultural gaps. They got 3.86 out of five points in educational needs for multicultural family who need the dental education most. The multicultural family showed the higher score in every question. Conclusions : Public health center dental clinics should help dental hygienists to acquire information on multicultural family. Public health center should provide the easy access way of dental health checkup for the multicultural family.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.206-225
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• 2012

General status of pediatric dentistry in Korea is to conduct vigorous academic activities and specialized medical care centering the Korean Association of Pediatric Dentistry (KAPD) that has about 1,000 pediatric dentists as members, pediatric dentistry departments of 11 Colleges of Dentistry, numbers of pediatric dentistry training institutions and private clinics specialized in children. From 1996, the accredited pediatric dentists were produced by the KAPD and from 2008, the state began to produce the accredited pediatric dentists. Since then, doctors with expertise in pediatric care had opened private clinics in addition to the university hospitals, it became the basis of a momentum to deepen the specialty of pediatric dentistry. The Dentistry community of Korea is going through rapid and profound changes recently, and the underlying reasons for such changes can be classified largely into a few categories: (1) Decreasing population and structural changes in population (2) Increase in numbers of dentists, (3) Changes in the pattern of dental diseases and (4) Changes in medical environment. In Korea, the children population in the age range of 0 ~ 14 years old had been decreased by 2 million in 2010 compared to that of 2000 due to reduction of birth rate. The current population of children in the age range of 0 ~ 4 years old in 2010 takes up 16.2% of the total population, but it is estimated that such percentage would decrease to 8.0% by 2050. Such percentage is largely behind the estimated mean global population of 19.6% by 2050. On the other hand, the number of dentists had been largely increased from 18,000 in 2000 to 25,000 in 2010. And it is estimated that the number will be increased to 41,000 by 2030. In addition, the specialized personnel of Pediatric dentistry had been shown as increased by 2.5 times during past 10 years. For the changes in the pattern of dental diseases, including dental caries, each df rate of 5 years old children and 12 years old children had been decreased by 21.9% and 16.7% respectively in 2010 compared to 2000. Each df Index also had been decreased by 2.5 teeth and 1.2 teeth respectively. The medical expenditure of Korea is less than that of OECD and more specifically, the expenditure from the National Health Plan is less than OECD but the expenditure covered by households is larger than OECD. These facts indicate that it is considered as requiring the coverage of the national health plan to be reinforced more in the future and as such reinforcement needs continuous promotion. In medical examination pattern of Pediatric dentistry, the preventive and corrective treatment were increased whereas the restorative treatment was decreased. It is considered that such change is caused from decrease of dental caries from activation of the prevention project at national level. For the restorative treatment, the restorations in use of dental amalgam, pre-existing gold crowning and endodontic treatment had been decreased in their proportion while the restorative treatment in use of composite resin had been increased. It is considered that such changes is caused by the change of demands from patients and family or guardians as they desired more aesthetic improvement along with socio-economic growth of Korean society. Due to such changes in dentistry, the pediatric dentistry in Korea also attempts to have changes in the patterns of medical examination as follows; It tends to implement early stage treatment through early diagnosis utilizing various diagnostic tools such as FOTI or QLF. The early stage dental caries so called white spot had been included in the subjects for dental care or management and in order to do so, the medical care guidelines essentially accompanied with remineralization treatment as well as minimally invasive treatment is being generalized gradually. Also, centering the Pediatric dentists, the importance of caries risk assessment is being recognized, in addition that the management of dental caries is being changed from surgical approach to internal medicinal approach. Recently, efforts began to emerge in order to increase the target patients to be managed by dentists and to expand the application scope of Pediatric dentistry along with through such changes. The interest and activities of Pediatric dentists which had been limited to the medical examination room so far, is now being expanded externally, as they put efforts for participating in the preventive policy making process of the community or the state, and to support the political theories. And also opinions are being collected into the direction that the future- oriented strategic political tasks shall be selected and researches as well as presentations on the theoretical rationale of such tasks at the association level.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.140-149
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• 2021

Background: The aim of these two (pre COVID-19 pandemic) public health studies in Amsterdam were to promote the profession of the oral hygienist and to increase oral health care awareness among (pregnant) women and young mothers, who were visitors of public consumer's exhibitions. Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were carried out. In 2018, during the first study, 1,765 visitors of the Household Fair completed a questionnaire. In 2020, during Study 2, 304 visitors of the Nine-Month Fair completed a semi-structured online questionnaire. At both fairs a team of 'outspoken' oral hygienists, i.e., members of the Foundation 'Goed Gebekt', provided the visitors with tailored advices about general health related to adults, mothers', and their children' oral health, using natural routine interviewing, that was based on their own professional daily practical experience. Results: In Study 1, just over half (53.5%) of a total of 1,742 visitors, (85.7% female) was younger than 45 years old. In Study 2, 210 visitors with a mean age of 30.7 years were included. Most women reported their self-perceived oral health as 'good' (mean=8.0, standard deviation=1.3; range 3~10). Qualified (self) employed oral hygienists seem to be known among the visitors, but still only visited upon referral of the dentists. Up to the age of 18 reimbursements by the basic insurance is still unknown to the public. Conclusion: The Foundation 'Goed Gebekt' encourages other oral hygienists to make their own initiatives and experiences public and to share it. Public awareness is needed for oral health promotion and the development of optimally targeted interventions among (pregnant) women and young mothers by oral hygienists.