• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.4030-4037
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between oral dryness and stress and to collect baseline data for health promotion plan of college students. This research design is correlation study. Data of 835 were collected from May 2 to June 17, 2011, and analyzed using the SPSS PASW Statistics 18.0 Program. There was a statistical significant between oral dryness and perceived health status(p<.001). there were statistical significant in gender(p<.001), age(p<.001), grade(p<.01), major(p<.01), perceived health status(p<.001), exercise(p<.001), smoking(p<.001), drinking(p<.01) between general characteristics and stress. The mean score of oral dryness level was $12.89{\pm}10.15$ from 0 to 60 score range. Higher percentage in oral dryness action was "When I swallowing dry food, drink water or beverage"(48.7%). The mean score of stress was $7.17{\pm}4.78$ from 0 to 20 score range. Oral dryness level was positively related to stress(p<.01) and oral dryness action(p<.001). It is necessary to develop the educational program for health promotion of college students.