• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.453-464
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• 2011

Objectives : The purpose of the study is to gain some basic material for the improvement of dental clinics' homepages through a survey investigation, in which college students of Dental Hygiene Departments and Dental Hygienists in Kwangju and Cheollanamdo Province Methods : It conducted the self-reported questionnaire survey on the Recognition Degrees of the Dental Clinics' Homepages from May 26, 2010 to October 19 targeting 240 dental hygienists who are working for dental offices and 638 college students of Dental Hygiene Departments. Results : 1. It was asked whether they have visited dental homepages for the recent one year; 'yes' answers occupied 68.1%, double than 'no' answers. 2. It was asked how much they know services provided in dental homepages; The more respondents correctly answered that there exist all these services like general information service, visitor's book and bulletin board service, reservation service, dental information service, counseling service, and visual service. 3. All the respondents answered that the homepage of each dental clinic is closely related with the image of the clinic : freshmen showed 3.84, sophomore showed 4.03, juniors showed 4.03, and dental hygienists showed 3.88. 4. It was asked how much they know services provided in dental homepages; Are there the homepages for dental hygienists? Many of them answered that IT experts or businesses are managing the homepages in the technical respect(38.4%) and their use and general administration mainly belongs to dental hygienists(46.2%). Conclusions : It is necessary that through the studies of dental hygienists' interest and understanding on dental homepages we have to seek the development orientation of the technical management and the way of using them, and furthermore we have to know the thoughts of patients on dental homepages, who are users of the dental informations, and find the ways of improving medical services which the patients want.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.753-767
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• 2009

Objectives : The study is to gain some basic material for the improvement of dental clinics' homepages through a survey investigation, in which college students of three Dental Hygienic departments participated in Kwangju and Cheollanamdo Province. Methods : In the investigation three factors were analyzed : the degree of knowledge on dental clinics' homepages, the degree of recognition on them, and whether they have paid a visit on them or not. A total of 509(96.8%) respondents are valid except 17sheets of responses. Results : 1. When asked about the degrees of knowledge on the formation of the homepages by students' years, the correct rate on Information Service was higher in a row of the second year, the first year, and the third year. And it shows statistically significant difference(p<0.05). In the part of Counseling Service, the rate of correct answers was highest in the second year, and then the first year and the third year. It also shows significant difference(p<0.05). In case of Visual Service, the second year got the highest rate of correct answers, and then the first year and the third year. Here is significant difference by the school years<0.01) 2. It was asked whether they have visited the dental clinics' homepages. The results are like this: 145 sophomores(28.5%) have visited them, and 115 juniors(22.6%) and 85 freshmen(16.7%), and it show significant difference (p<0.001). 3. It was asked how many sites they have visited. Among the freshmen, not a few students visited two sites (34, 9.9%), among sophomores 48 students visited five sites(13.9%), and among juniors the highest answers were two sites (41, 11.9%). It shows signigicant difference(p<0.01). 4. It was asked what is the purpose of the visits. At this 27 freshmen answered for having counseling(7.8%), and 80 sophomores(23.3%) and 43 juniors(12.5%) answered they visited them for the purpose of gaining some materials about their major. It shows significant difference(p<0.001). 5. It was asked with what opportunity they have visited them. They answered through searching activities like this : freshmen (68, 19.8%), sophomores (130, 37.9%), and juniors (98, 28.6%). It shows significant difference(p<0.05). 6. In regard with the recognition of the homepages, all the participants said that the management of the homepages are closely related with the images of the clinics($3.96{\pm}0.781$). But it is found that they do not think that the effective management of dental clinics' homepages is the task of dental hygienic workers as a part of dental hygienic($3.12{\pm}0.971$). 7. There is some difference concerned with the homepages among each group of students; sophomores have highest recognition on them and then juniors and freshmen, and it shows significant difference(p<0.01). In addition, those who have visited them show higher recognition than those who have never visited them(p<0.001). Conclusions : There are some differences among each group of students in regard with the formation service, the purpose of visiting them and such experiences, and the opportunities. Whereases they think that the management of the homepages are closely related with the images of the clinics, they do not think that the effective management of dental clinics' homepages is the task of dental hygienic workers as a part of dental hygienic. Therefore it is necessary to study actively for the qualitative improvement of the dental clinics' homepages, which will result in the higher recognition on the homepages by the dental hygienic students and the workers.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2003

본 연구는 우리나라 치과관련 홈페이지의 특성을 분석하고 개선방안을 제시하고자 하는 것이다. 인터넷 웹 검색엔진에서 치과를 검색어로 하여 317개의 치과관련 사이트를 대상으로 하였다. 연구내용으로는 각각의 홈페이지를 직접 방문하여 특성을 알아본 후 일반 기업 및 병원 홈페이지의 특징적인 부분을 비교 분석하였다. 1. 치과관련 홈페이지의 특성 첫째, 치과포탈사이트에서 홈페이지 만든 경우 동일한 컨텐츠와 디자인을 가진 곳이 있었다. 둘째, 네트워크나 프랜차이즈화로 홈페이지 상에서 다른 병원이나 한의원 및 치과병 의원과 링크할 수 있도록 되어 있었다. 셋째, 주소의 일관성이 없었다. 넷째, 일반인들을 대상으로 치과상식 제공과 진료상담을 통한 정보제공 기능만을 하는 곳도 있었다. 다섯째, 치과홈페이지의 대부분은 단순하고도 정적인 화면만을 제공하고 있어 멀티미디어 요소의 활용이 요구된다. 여섯째, 주기적인 업데이트와 유지보수가 필요하다. 2. 치과 홈페이지의 개선방향 첫째, 치과홈페이지를 제작하는데 특화된 내용과 특징을 살리는 홈페이지 개발이 필요하다. 둘째, 3차원적 이미지나 멀티미디어 요소의 사용은 치과치료나 치과상식에 이해를 증진시키고 치과 홍보의 효과를 높일 수 있을 것이다. 셋째, 일반 기업이나 병원에서 사용하는 구인, 구매발주 시스템은 치과경영의 효율성을 증가시킬 수 있을 것이다. 넷째, 네트워크나 프랜차이즈로 묶인 치과병 의원들은 서로 상호 링크가 가능하도록 홍보용 배너를 제작하여 게재하고, 홈페이지 디자인을 통일하거나 공통된 로고를 사용한다면 이미지 확보와 홍보에 효과적일 것이다. 다섯째, 지도 검색기능, 인터넷 검사결과 조회시스템을 추가하면 편리할 것이다. 여섯째, 오락이나 게임 등 다양한 서비스를 제공한다면 치과병 의원의 이미지를 친화적으로 만들고, 재방문을 유도할 수 있을 것이다.