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Actual conditions and recognition of dental hygienists for the smoking (치과위생사의 흡연실태 및 인식조사)

  • Seong, Jeong-Min;Hwang, Ji-Min;Kim, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Kyoung;Choi, Young-Suk;Jang, Jong-Hwa;Yoo, Su-Min;Beom, Kyung-Chul;Park, Yong-Duk
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.306-318
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    • 2009
  • Objectives : There were reports about the decreasing of quit-smoking ratio because of taking professional advices. This study were to investigate smoking prevalence rate of the dental hygienist study in nationwide and quit-smoking counseling activity for patients in dental clinic. Methods : The registered Korea Dental Hygienists Association Meeting in 2005 were recruited as subjects. The personal surveyed, 486(87.7%) returned completed questionnaires. Results : The smoking rate of dental hygienist is 3.1%, past smoking rate 1.4% and smoking cessation 95.5%. In smoking cessation counseling activity, only 20.8% of dental hygienist would advise to quit smoking. However, 63.8% intended to advise to quit smoking but they have no idea about quit smoking program and 15.4% had no intention of advising to quit. It is a whole consent that Smoking dental hygienist is tend to against smoking and necessary training about smoking cessation same opinion. Conclusions : Dental hygienist is more effective for health care professional to help people stop smoking, therefore dental hygienist is important for them to have through knowledge of subject and confidence in their role in smoking cessation.

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Perception, Attitude, Performance on the Hand Washing by Dental Hygienist (치과위생사의 손씻기 인지도와 태도 및 수행도)

  • Han, Ok-Seong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.375-382
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to examine perception, attitude, performance on the hand washing by dental hygienist. A self-reported questionnaire was surveyed by 165 dental hygienist in G area. The data were analyzed for frequency analysis, average, standard deviation, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, pearson's correlation coefficient by using SPSS 21.0 program. The perception on the hand washing, age and work place, career, Number of hand washing, Frequency of hand washing education were higher significantly. The attitude, performance on the hand washing by dental hygienist, age, career, work place were higher significantly. There were positive correlations among the perception, attitude, performance of dental hygienists on the hand washing by dental hygienist. The result of this study indicates a necessity for developing education programs consistently to improve perception, attitude, performance of hand washing by dental hygienist.

The opinions of some local clinical dental hygienists on medical personnel of dental hygienists (일부지역 임상치과위생사들의 치과위생사 의료인화에 대한 견해)

  • Ryu, Hae-Gyum
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1067-1077
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate the opinions of some local clinical dental hygienists on medical personnel of dental hygienists. It will be for provide the Future dental hygienist basic data necessary for medical personnel. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 171 dental hygienists in Busan and Gyeongnam from December 1, 2017 to January 31, 2018. Structured questionnaires were uesd for analysis. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects(7 items), medical personnel necessity and opinions of dental hygienist(2 items), the opinions of distinction of the task between dental hygienists and other personnel(2 items), many frequency task in the dental clinic. The collected data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, descriptive statistics and ANOVA using IBM SPSS VER 20.0. Results: 89.5% of the dental hygienists required medical personnel of dental hygienist, the opinions on the necessity were as follows: 'role and quality improvement as oral health professionals', 'lack of legislation and application of dental hygienists duties'. There was no difference reason between dental hygienists and other personnel on duties, the reason were investigated to uncertainty of dental hygienist system, lack of dental hygienist workforce, dentists lack awareness of dental hygienist expertise. There was surveyed by the current many frequency duties in the dental clinic, assist for dental treatment, Oral health education and counselling, Preventive dental treatment. Conclusions: Legal guarantees for clinical dental hygienists work are absolutely required. Therefore, relevant government agencies and related organizations should resolve the contradiction of the legal system of medical law and medical technicians. The clinical dental hygienists should be promoted to medical personnel through the amendment of the medical law so that the duties practiced by the dental hygienist can be matched with the legal practice.