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Korean Society of Dental Hygiene (한국치위생학회)
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Awareness and educational needs towards the multicultural family in dental hygienists in public health center

보건소 치과위생사의 다문화에 대한 인식도 및 교육 요구

  • Jang, Sun-Hee (Department of Dental Hygiene, Wonkwang Health Science University) ;
  • Lee, Gwang-Hee (Department of Dental Hygiene, Wonkwang Health Science University)
  • 장선희 (원광보건대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 이광희 (원광보건대학교 치위생과)
  • Received : 2013.12.04
  • Accepted : 2014.04.03
  • Published : 2014.04.30
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Abstract

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of dental hygienists in public health center towards multicultural family and educational needs to provide information on community oral health programs. Methods : The subjects were 74 recruited from 126 dental hygienists in 14 public dental clinics in Jeonbuk Province. A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 64 dental hygienists in charge of dental health care. Data were anlatzed by the statistical package SPSS WIN 12.0. Results : The characteristics of the subjects had no impact on their positive multicultural awareness, and there existed differences by age, rank and period of services in the channel of information acquisition. They got 3.5 out of five in multicultural awareness showing a positive way. The types of medical services for multicultural family revealed that they provided oral health education, dental checkup services and simple treatment covered by health insurance. Health insurance accounted for 15.4 percent of dental services. The obstacles to dental services in multicultural family were communication problems, poor concern for oral health and cultural gaps. They got 3.86 out of five points in educational needs for multicultural family who need the dental education most. The multicultural family showed the higher score in every question. Conclusions : Public health center dental clinics should help dental hygienists to acquire information on multicultural family. Public health center should provide the easy access way of dental health checkup for the multicultural family.

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