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A study on the implementation of infection control at dental offices (치과 진료실 감염방지 실천에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Seung-Hee;Kwag, Jung-Suk;Ju, On-Ju;Lim, Kun-Ok
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.282-293
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of infection control implemented at dental offices and factors affecting it in an attempt to help promote the health of dental health care workers. The subjects in this study were 180 medical personnels who worked at dental offices in the region of South Jeolla Province. A self-administered survey was conducted from April 1 to May 30, 2008, and the collected data were analyzed. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. As for the implementation of infection control at the dental offices, what the health care workers investigated did the most was post-treatment hand washing(95.0), a constant separation of infectious wastes(94.4), wearing rubber gloves all the time during medical instrument cleansing(92.8) and pre-treatment hand washing(91.7). 2. In regard to the implementation of infection control at the dental offices, what the dental personnels did the least was drying their hands with air(5.0), wearing goggles in times of treatment(23.3), receiving regular education on infection control(26.7) and putting sterilizers to a performance test on a regular basis(43.9). 3. The dental health care workers were significantly different according to age in the management of contagious diseases(p=0.005). Their career made a significant difference to the management of contagious diseases(p=0.000) and instrument cleansing/sterilization(p=0.043). The service area made a significant difference to wearing and managing personal protective clothes (p=0.040) and waste management(p=0.040). 4. Concerning the relationship between the acquisition of dental hygienist certificate and the practice of infection control, whether the dental health care workers were certified or not made no significant difference to that. 5. As to the correlation among the factors affecting the prevention and management of contagious diseases, there was a positive correlation among hand washing(r=0.379), wearing and managing personal protective clothes(r=0.349), instrument cleansing/sterilization(r=0.323) and waste management(r=0.388). All the factors made a statistically significant difference to the prevention and management of contagious diseases(p<0.01).

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The Connection between Hand Washing and Brushing Teeth

  • Ra-Ae Bak;Sun-Jung Shin;Hee-Jung Park;Jin-Young Jung;Hwa-Young Lee;Nam-Hee Kim
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.132-141
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    • 2023
  • Background: The purpose of this study was to identify the connection between handwashing and toothbrushing, focusing on eating habits, and to verify whether eating habits can be used as an action cue for forming health habits. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using secondary data from the 2019 community health survey. The participants included 229,099 adults aged 19 years or older, representative of the South Korean people. We employed two dependent variables: one was washing hands, and the other was brushing teeth. Eating habits was a major independent variable. Socioeconomic variables, such as age, gender, income, occupation, economic activity, education, and residence were adjusted as confounders. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to calculate adjusted odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals. Results: Most of the participants had good health behaviors: those who wash their hands and brush their teeth were each approximately 80%. Our finding indicated that brushing teeth and washing hands can be connected with eating habits. After adjusting for confounders, it was found that people who wash their hands before meals (compared to those who did not wash their hands before meals) had a higher toothbrushing rate after meals (i.e., socioeconomic status) (Adjusted Odds Ratio: 2.0, Confidence Intervals: 1.9 to 2.1). Conclusion: Those who practice either washing hands before meals or brushing teeth after meals were found to have a connection between washing hands and brushing teeth based on the results of practicing other health behaviors. This implies that eating habits can be connected as a behavior cue to promote health habits, such as washing hands before meals and brushing teeth after meals.

Study of Recognition about Hospital Infection Management in Physical Therapists (물리치료사의 병원 감염관리에 대한 인지도 연구)

  • Song, Min-Young;Lee, Tae-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.141-150
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    • 2002
  • Most of physical therapists has thought be exposed themselves to risk of hospital infection but it is reported that have been low concern about infection management. Above like this haven t done systematical education on hospital infection, also physical therapist's information management of infection disease is found very low. It is lack of driving information about disease condition of the patients. Physical therapists has thought their working room may be polluted a lots of micro-organism(%). The control situation of infection waste articles, only 53% responded that the controller has managed very intensive so we can feel to need more intensive It's reported that air culture investigation of physical therapy room has never initiated. To wash the hand, before, after treatment of the patients of physical therapist, is very low frequency. And 73% have responded that the time to wash the hand stays 15-45 second. It is examined that 70% physical therapy room is equipped with washing system, a response of 58% disinfects physical therapy room 1-2times per one month. 36% responded disinfection of treatment modality have done everyday, 25% responded have never done. The location physical therapy room is above one floor - 65%. A response of 57% is ventilation system sufficiency, it is considered that physical therapists needs more efforts on management of hospital infection.

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A Study on the Elements of Architectural Planning Required in Healthcare Accreditation - Focused on Korea Healthcare Accreditation, JCI Hospitals Standard - (의료기관 인증제도에서 요구되는 건축계획요소에 관한 연구 - 국내 의료기관인증제도, JCI 병원인증기준을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Ui-Hyeon;Yang, Nae-Won
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.223-230
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    • 2012
  • These days, hospitals in Korea have great interests in healthcare accreditation. The criteria of this accreditation has been established by management, but development of the management system without facility improvement has limits. Therefore this study reclassified domestic and foreign healthcare accreditation focusing on facilities and has purpose on proposing facility elements that can be adopted in hospitals. Also, the study is relevant to the study on architecture planning of hospital according to 'Patient safety' which will be suggested in the future and has significance for establishing basis of healthcare facility planning and for improving the existing facilities. The study selected facility lists from 'healthcare accreditation' and reclassified them based on departments in the hospital. Using these lists, the study divided the hospital that has obtained 'healthcare accreditation' into departments and investigated and analyzed them. On the basis of the analysis, the study suggested facility lists involved in hand washing, waste disposal, equipment washing, quarantine, goods-movement, establishing clean/polluted area, emergency exit-way, and restricted zone.

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Relationship between handwashing practices and infectious diseases in Korean students (한국 학생의 손씻기 실천과 감염병 이환과의 관련성)

  • Zhang, Dong-Fang;Lee, Moo-Sik;Hong, SuJin;Yang, Nam-Young;Hwang, Hae-Jung;Kim, Byung-Hee;Kim, Hyun-Soo;Kim, Eun-Young;Park, Yun-Jin;Lim, Go-Un;Kim, Young-Tek
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.206-220
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between practice and infectious diseases in elementary, middle and high school students. Methods: In 16 metropolitan cities and province of the Korea, the students who from fourth grade of elementary school to third grade of high school were surveyed by personal interviews and an web-based online survey from 5 to 25 September, 2014. We analyzed data with chi-square test and logistic regression analysis. Results: Common cold, diarrhea, and eye infections were more prevalent among students in higher grade than lower grade. In particular, common cold was more prevalent among girls than boys, using hand sanitizer than washing with soaps, and students who wash the dorsal side of hand than not wash the dorsal side of hand. Conclusions: Higher-grade students showed low status of hand washing practice. Hand washing was determined as the fact which influences to increase the prevention of communicable disease such as common cold. Considering the fact that youth groups have higher risk of being infected due to their group life, schools are recommended to provide adequate educations regarding proper hand washing practice with soap.

Infection control among dental hygienists according to infection control education experiences (치과위생사의 감염관리 교육경험에 따른 감염관리 실태)

  • Kim, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.547-556
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the infection control education experiences of dental hygienists and the state of their infection control. Methods : The subjects in this study were the dental hygienists who worked in Seoul. The relationship of their infection control education experiences to their gender, marital status, academic credential, workplace, length of service, infection control implementation, experience of being exposed to infection, way of coping with it, hand washing, use of personal protection devices and equipment management was analyzed. Results : It is found that the variable to affect the state of infection control was educational experiences about handpiece water pipe management, ultrasonic scaler water pipe management and three-way syringe water pipe management. Conclusions : Dental hygienists who are one of major dental personnels should receive systematic education on infection control to acquire accurate knowledge to ensure the successful prevention of cross infection.

A Comparative Study on the Food Hygiene Attitude and Personal Hygiene Management of High School Students according to Gender (고등학생의 식품위생태도와 개인위생관리의 성별에 따른 비교연구)

  • Kim, Suk Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.207-213
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    • 2019
  • This study aimed to provide basic data for the development of education programs on food hygiene attitude and personal hygiene management of high school students according to gender. From July 16 to October 15, 2015, questionnaires were distributed to 30 students per grade at 16 high schools in Chungcheongnam-do, and a total of 1,214 questionnaires(excluding uncollected and insufficient questionnaires) were processed using SPSS(ver 18.0). According to the study, female students more checked the expiration date for food(3.78, 3.57), ate stored food without heating(2.83, 3.02) and stored it according to the characteristics(3.92, 3.72) than male students. On the other hand, male students answered they looked at food packaging more closely(3.34, 3.22), and always used personal plates when they ate(3.43, 3.32), than female students. Female students were always better at hand washing after went to toilet(4.25, 3.94), used individual cups when using water purifiers(3.45, 3.32), kept nails cleaner(3.61, 3.49), and went around(2.14, 2.53) and went to toilet during meals than male students(2.22, 2.57). Boys answered they were better at hand washing before meals(3.64, 3.50), with right way(3.58, 3.46), and covering with a tissue, handkerchief or sleeve when they coughed(3.55, 3.37) than girls. In this study, high school students showed significant differences between gender in food hygiene attitude and personal hygiene management, with different areas requiring improvement. Therefore, this study suggests the need for education on food hygiene attitude and personal hygiene management differentiated according to gender.

Current conditions regarding dental infection management recognition of students in the department of dental hygiene (치위생(학)과 학생의 치과감염관리에 관한 인식현황)

  • Lee, Yeun-Kyoung;Kim, Soon-Duck
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.468-478
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    • 2009
  • This research was performed to provide basic data for the development of infection related dental hygiene studies by surveying the current condition of recognition among students in the department of dental hygiene toward hospital infection management while receiving the following results by using a personal self-administered survey method targeting 303 students in the department of dental hygiene from certain areas. 1. With the current condition of recognition on the sanitization and sterilization of instruments among students in the department of dental hygiene(study), the rate at which surgical instruments are to be sterilized with autoclaves was 79.9% which was relatively higher than other instruments while it was shown that prosthetic instruments for treatment was 56.4%, conservative instruments for treatment was 51.8%, and ultrasonic scaler tip was 51.1% while the way syringe tips(36.1%) and the dental anesthetic apparatus(27.9%) were revealed to require sanitization by alcohol. 2. The 'hand wash' area was the highest with 4.71 while the 'materials and environment management' area and 'equipment management' area appeared high respectively with 4.43 and 4.41. 3. With the current condition of recognition on equipment management, 'equipments used for contagious patients are separately washed after a one-time use and must be sterilized or separated-and-discarded' was the highest with 4.82 while 'sterilization equipments with humidity or water on it are considered contaminated and are not used' showed the lowest recognition level with 3.90. 4. Regarding the current condition of materials and environment management, 'contagious and general trash are separated and discarded' was the highest with 4.70 while 'the refrigerator for medicine storage is cleaned on a regular basis once a month' was revealed as the lowest with 4.11. 5. With the current condition of recognition on hand washing, 'one must wash their hands after coming in contact with contagious patients, was the highest with 4.90 while washing hands after taking off gloves' appeared as the lowest with 4.51 point. To conclude department of dental hygiene there is to infection management and necessary about organization disinfecting and pasteurization to strengthen an education in order raising a stamp helping practical ratio about the infection management which whole, is from presence at a sickbed and connection does and about the infection management which is substantial and educational program development leads feed with the fact that deepening studying which is continuous must become accomplished becomes.

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Evauation of Management & Hygienic Status of High School Foodservice using ATP Bioluminescence Assay (고등학교 급식시설 운영실태 및 ATP Bioluminescence를 이용한 위생상태 조사연구)

  • Kye, Seung-Hee;Hwang, Seong-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.515-524
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    • 2017
  • An investigation was conducted to evaluate the hygienic status of 53 high school foodservice systems in Gyeonggi province by using hygiene management guide checklist, ATP bioluminescence assay of food utensils were conducted during process. The 5 hygiene management guide checklist groups about personal hygiene, cooking facilities control, cross contamination control, cook and storage control, management control were checked by experts and had good grades but there were some inadequate behaviors on observation. Total cleaning levels were inadequate, including hand, rubber gloves, aprons, knives, food tray, machine and instruments. The possibility of cross contamination is also noted in handles for refrigerators, ovens, food dryers, hand washing. It was also noted that there were too much work on the nutritionist and cook, additional personnel need to be added. lack of space, deterioration of facilities were identified in some high school foodservice systems. ATP bioluminescence assay was conducted on surface of food facilities, ATP ranged $1,393{\pm}5,041.2RLU$ on yellow gloves, $244{\pm}258.7RLU$ on pink gloves, $3,780{\pm}11,418.6RLU$ on apron, $49,056{\pm}62,831.4RLU$ on refrigerator grip, $41,422{\pm}61,259.8RLU$ in oven, $31,407{\pm}41,344.9RLU$ on hand cleaning board.

Factors Influencing Performance of the Nurses about the Management of Nosocomial Infection (간호사의 병원감염 관리에 대한 수행도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Sung, Mi-Hae;Kim, Nam Yoon;Choi, Hye Yoon
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.5-14
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing performance of the clinical nurses about the management of nosocomial infection. Method: The data were collected using structured questionnaire from 300 clinical nurses from April 26, 2004 to May 20, 2004. The data analyzed by the SPSS (ver10.0)program, and it included descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, the Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise multiple regression. Result: Personal hygiene management and disinfection equipment management had the higher record than other dimensions. The level of recognition for management of nosocomial infection showed positive correlation with the level of performance for management of nosocomial infection. The level of recognition for management of nosocomial infection, working period, number of hand washing, have significant effects on the degree of a performance for management of nosocomial infection. These predictive variables of the degree of a performance for management of nosocomial infection explained 17% of variance. Conclusion: It is needed to be developed for the effective management of nosocomial infection through the educational program.

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