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Implementation Level and Factors of Parents about Dental Examination in Elementary School Children

초등학생들의 학교구강검진결과에 대한 학부모의 이행수준과 관련요인

  • Choi, Sung-Mi (Department of Dental Hygiene, Daegu Health College) ;
  • Sakong, Joon (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Jang, Eun-Jin (Department of Dental Technology, Daegu Health College)
  • 최성미 (대구보건대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 사공준 (영남대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 장은진 (대구보건대학교 치기공과)
  • Received : 2013.05.10
  • Accepted : 2013.06.18
  • Published : 2013.06.30

Abstract

This study evaluated the interest of parents of elementary school children on the examination with their memory of results, their consistency and their compliance with results sheets to improve effects of School dental health management project. This study recruited 1,334 second-, third-, fifth- and sixth-grade students at two elementary schools located in Daegu metropolitan city performing School Dental Examination Project in 2008 and investigated whether the students visited dental hospitals following results of the examination, how the parents remembered the results and how their memory was same with real results based on results of the examination, the parents' memory of results. The parents of second- and third-grade students showed good memory of malocclusion and number of Caries and higher consistency for dental caries. The parents of fifth- and sixth-grade students showed good memory of dental caries. Visiting rates of dental hospitals accordance with grade were 75.7% due to dental caries in second- and third-grade students and 60.5% due to malocclusion in fifth- and sixth-grade students. Among students with abnormal results of the examination, 77.1% of the children with dental caries of parents having same memory with real results visited the hospitals while 52.7% of those of parents having different memory with them did.

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