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Opinion of dental hygienists toward school dental clinic operation

학교구강보건실 운영에 대한 담당치과위생사의 견해

  • Lee, Sun-Mi (Department of Dental Hygiene, Dongnam Health University) ;
  • Won, Young-Soon (Department of Dental Hygiene, Wankwang Health University) ;
  • Kim, Chang-Hee (Department of Dental Hygiene, ChungCheong University) ;
  • Hong, Song-Hee (Department of Dental Hygiene, Taegu Science University) ;
  • Lee, Hye-Jung (Department of Child Development and Education, Myongji University) ;
  • Ahn, Se-Youn (Department of Dental Hygiene, Dongnam Health University)
  • 이선미 (동남보건대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 원영순 (원광보건대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 김창희 (충청대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 홍송희 (대구과학대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 이혜정 (명지대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 안세연 (동남보건대학교 치위생과)
  • Received : 2015.12.21
  • Accepted : 2016.02.19
  • Published : 2016.02.28
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Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate the opinion of dental hygienists toward school dental clinic operation. Methods: The study was carried out by telephone or e-mail to the dental hygienists in 415 elementary school dental clinics from September 1 to 30, 2014. The questionnaires were collected from 208 school dental clinics. Except incomplete answers, 148 data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 program. The self-reported questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects(7 items), operation of school dental clinic(5 items), obstacle to school dental clinic(10 items), and effective operation of school dental clinic(5 items). Results: The school dental clinic operation accounted for 68.7% and 90.6% of the respondents answered that it was very effective for the oral health improvement. The dental hygienists answered that the clinic operation was very effective in oral disease prevention(37.1%), oral health knowledge and behavior(32.8%), oral health behavior habit(29.3%), and oral health improvement(0.9%). The change of the current operation into full time employee accounted for 79.7% and only 16.1% agreed to current operation of clinic visit by the community health center. The results showed that need for dentist was 3.69 by Likert 5 point scale. Conclusions: The oral health policy must be established to develop and implement the oral health programs for the school clinics.

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