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The Convergence Research on Oral Health Care Behavior of Fire Officers

소방공무원의 구강건강관리 행태에 관한 융합연구

  • Bak, Young-Seok (Department of Emergency Medical Service, Sun Moon University) ;
  • Jung, Su-Jin (Department of Dental hygiene, Konyang University) ;
  • Lee, Mi-Ra (Department of Dental Hygiene, Baekseok Culture University)
  • Received : 2017.11.17
  • Accepted : 2017.12.20
  • Published : 2017.12.31

Abstract

This study was conducted in 241 fire officers at fire stations in Daejeon Metropolitan City to determine their oral health care behavior status and obtained the following results: First, men were more likely to brush their teeth 3 times a day and women were more likely to brush their teeth 4 times a day; those who were in their twenties and had ${\leq}5$ years of career brushed their teeth for ${\geq}3$ minutes. Second, the respondents who were in their twenties and thirties and had <10 years of career were more likely to use auxiliary oral hygiene devices and fire captains and those at higher positions were more likely to have received oral health education. Third, the respondents having received oral health education were more likely to use auxiliary oral hygiene devices and to have their teeth scaling within a year. While the fire officers were fortunately at good levels of oral health care, taking the poor working environment into account, the efforts to develop job-customized oral health programs in which IT and robot technologies are combined to improve oral health and take measures to publicize the programs and to give better treatment to fire officers are expected to put them in better oral health care status.

본 연구는 소방공무원의 구강건강관리 행동에 대한 실태를 파악하고자 대전광역시의 일부 소방서에 근무하는 241명의 소방공무원을 대상으로 실시하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 첫째, 1일 칫솔질 횟수는 남성은 3회, 여성은 4회라는 응답이 많았고, 칫솔질 시간은 20대 연령과 근무경력이 5년 이하인 근무자들이 3분 이상 닦는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 구강보조용품 사용은 20, 30대 연령과 근무경력이 10년 미만인 근무자들이 많이 사용하고 있었으며, 소방장 이하의 계급에서 구강보건교육 경험이 많았다. 셋째, 구강보건교육을 받은 경우 구강보조용품을 더 많이 사용하고 있었고, 1년 내 치석제거도 더 많이 시행한 것으로 나타났다. 연구결과 열악한 근무환경에 비해 소방공무원의 구강건강관리상태는 다행히 양호한 수준 이였으나, 향후 구강건강향상을 위한 IT와 로봇기술이 융합된 직무 맞춤형 구강건강 프로그램 개발과 홍보대책 방안을 마련하고 소방공무원의 처우를 개선한다면 소방공무원들의 구강건강관리 수준은 더 향상될 수 있을 것이라 사료되었다.

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