• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2013

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to measure the fear of dental care and analyze the related factors between reliability for members in dental office and fear of dental care, dental office. Methods : Located in Gwangju, 260 college women who had dental experience in the past year were surveyed. SPSS windows ver. 11.0 by demographic characteristics and oral health characteristics of the frequency and percentage, and related factors in the fear of dental care and the reliability about dental health care workers of one way ANOVA, Tukey test for Post-Hoc test. and were factors associated with dental fear of the stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed. Results : The fear will be higher when subjective oral health status is considered lower, the reliability of dental health care workers is lower(p<0.05). Evasion and overall fear, overall fear and stimulations of dental care, stimulations of dental care and overall feeling were related(p<0.05). Conclusions : The reliability of dental health care workers is lower and subjective oral health status is considered lower, the fear of dental care increase and everage number of brushing has increased, the fear of dental care decrease.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.347-353
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• 2016

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate the dental fear and related factors of dental hygienists using dental fear survey. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 279 dental hygienists from January 15 to March 28, 2015. The study instrument was dental fear survey. Data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0 program by t-test, one way ANOVA and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The questionnaire included general characteristics of the subjects, subjective oral health status, use of dental care services, subjective oral health status, and recent dental treatment. Results: Alcohol consumption was the most influential factor to the dental fear. The subjective status of oral health and direct pain sense also contributed to the dental fear. Conclusions: To reduce the dental fear, it is important to have high confidence toward the dental treatment performance in the dental hygienists.

• Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2019

Background: Although studies on dental fear in relation to sex and age have been conducted, there have been few nationwide studies particularly on the youth sector. In addition, no validity and reliability verifications have been implemented for new research groups on the Korean version of the Dental Fear Survey (K-DFS). Therefore, this study aimed to apply the K-DFS developed in a previous study on Korean youth to draw conclusions on dental fear among the youth. Methods: This study used the K-DFS, a Korean translation of Kleinknecht's Dental Fear Survey for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. This study selected 2,161 young people of various ages as participants and increased the validity of the research results by expanding nationwide the scope of the study area. Results: Differences in fear levels according to sex were higher in boys fear behavior scores than in girls' regarding dental treatment (P < 0.05). Students with dental fear had higher scores on items associated with dental treatment and fear of dental stimuli compared with students without dental fear (P < 0.05). Differences were observed among the three groups (P < 0.05). However, the results of logistic regression analysis showed no statistically significant differences for dental visits based on sex, grade, and other subcomponents (P > 0.05). Conclusion: By verifying the validity of the newly developed K-DFS, this research confirmed its utility as a dental fear questionnaire. Therefore, there can be no objection that the grounds for criticism have been established according to conventional wisdom. In the future, however, developing and studying the limits of K-DFS that overcome the factors of dental fear, especially pain, will help reduce dental fear in adolescents.

• Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.289-295
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• 2017

Background: This study is aimed to evaluate the level of fear and to reduce the overall fear, thereby enabling patients to receive treatment via timely visits. Methods: In a survey conducted by 460 South Korean middle school students, we used 453 data that faithfully responded to the survey. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to investigate the factors influencing subjective oral health and dental fear. The significance level used for statistical significance was ${\alpha}=0.05$. Results: The level of fear was higher for upper grade, female students. The factors affecting dental fear were higher for gingival bleeding and dental pain. Regarding factors for dental fear affecting subjective oral health, lower fear of puncture needle and tooth removal tool resulted in higher subjective oral health. Conclusions: The study found that adolescents had higher fear of dental care when they had gingival bleeding and tooth pain. Gingival bleeding is a symptom of early gingival disease and dental pain is likely due to advanced dental caries. These results suggested that it is necessary to have a program to reduce dental fear and anxiety as well as a program to prevent dental diseases through regular periodic screening and education.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.141-151
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• 2012

In this study a survey was conducted of a total of 187 insurance sales workers from 10 branches of S Insurance Company located around Korea to gather information on causes of dental fear. Results revealed that the group who had experienced direct dental pain in the past showed higher fear levels than the group without such experience. With respect to indirect dental pain, the group with such experience showed higher fear levels in 'fear of dental appointments' and 'fear of antiseptic smells than the group without such experience. Concerning gender, higher fear levels were observed among females than among males. It was also found that the majority of the respondents seldom go for a regular dental check-up regardless of whether they had experienced direct or indirect pain during dental treatment. In addition, there was positive correlation among all the items in the Dental Fear Survey Scale at a significance level of 0.1%. Twenty of all the DFS items were found to be related to causes of dental fear, meaning that most of the elements involving the dentistry may contribute to the development of dental fear among dentally fearful people.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2012

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to seek analysis of related factors for dental fear and to know the fear component affecting the treatment of the dental treatment. Methods : Total of 320 females and males aging from 10 to 40 years old with dental treatments done from May to July 2010 have participated with self-entry survey method utilizing the Dental Fear Survey questionnaire. The data received was analyzed using the descriptive statistic, t-test, ANOVA and multiple correlation analysis with level of significance as p<0.05. Results : The dental fear factor were significantly high in woman by $2.79{\pm}0.92$ and in 40's age group by $2.82{\pm}0.84$ (p<0.05). Participants with frequent tooth ache, experiencing pain while treating the tooth ache and breaking the dental treatment appointment showed higher fear factor. Thoughts of having poor dental health condition caused bad influence on fear factor. Overall, the factors affecting the fear of the dental treatments were gender, an ache while treating, number of missed appointment, and distrust of the dentist, stimulation factor were the factors affecting the treatment. Conclusions : The fear factors in the dental treatment were higher with gender, related characteristics of the oral health and distrust of the dentist. Therefore accurately recognizing the sensitive patient with dental treatment, proper management of the toothache, effort to increase the creditability of the doctors and separately treating patient customized for each individual patient will reduce the fear of the dental treatment.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.369-376
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• 2015

본 연구는 서울시 일개 치과의원에 내원한 환자를 대상으로 치과공포 수준을 측정하고, 치과공포 수준 감소를 위한 중재법에 대해 환자가 요구하는 방법을 적용한 후 치과공포 중재법의 효과를 측정하였다. 개입한 치과공포 중재법에 대해서는 전체적으로 '도움이 된다(3.57점)'는 의견이었고, 항목별로는 '어떤 진료인지 미리 설명해 준다(4.38점)', '진료 중에 환자가 손을 들면 언제든 치료를 잠시 멈추어 준다(4.35점)', '진료 중 통증이 발생할 것 같으면 미리 말해준다(4.24점)', '의료진이 부드럽고 웃는 표정을 한다(4.06점)' 순으로 도움이 된다고 하였다. 치과공포 중재법 적용 전과 후의 전체적인 만족도는 각각 4.37점과 4.35점으로 높은 수준이었으나, 적용 후 미미하게 감소하였으며 이는 치과치료 항목과 밀접한 연관이 있을 것으로 사료된다. 치과공포 수준을 감소하기 위해서는 환자의 치과공포 수준 뿐 아니라 치과공포 중재를 위한 요구도를 파악하여 이에 맞는 개입방법을 적용하여 주는 것이 효과적이며, 이에 대한 치과의료 인력에 대한 교육과 매뉴얼 개발이 필요하리라 생각된다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.350-361
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 15세에서 17세의 청소년들을 대상으로 치과치료에 대한 공포감의 일반적인 경향과 관련변인들에 따라 공포감이 어떻게 차이가 나며, 이들 변인들이 치과치료에 대한 공포감에 영향을 미치는 정도와 인과관계를 밝히고자 하였다. DFS, DBS 및 GFS를 포함한 설문도구와 청소년의 특성에 관한 문항들로 구성된 설문지를 이용하였고, SPSS를 이용하여 단변량 분석을 시행한 후 LISREL 8.12를 사용하여 공변량 구조모형을 분석하였다. DFS (0.957), DBS (0.916) 및 GFS (0.910)의 Cronbach 신뢰도 계수가 모두 0.9이상으로 높게 나타났고, 자신의 치아상태가 건강하지 않다고 생각할수록, 최근 구강 내 동통을 경험했을 경우, 치과치료 시 동통을 강하게 느꼈을 경우, 그리고 치료 시 동통을 자주 경험했을 경우와 치과약속을 어긴적이 있을 경우에 그렇지 않은 경우보다 치과치료에 대한 공포감의 수준이 통계적으로 유의하게 높아지는 추세로 나타났다. 구조방정식 모형의 적합도는 양호하게 나타났으며, 치과치료시 동통정도와 동통 횟수, 치과약속을 어긴 횟수, 치과의사에 대한 불신감 그리고 일반적인 공포감이 치과치료와 관련된 공포감에 정(+)의 직접효과가 있었다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.65-79
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• 2010

Objectives : This study was designed to present how to reduce the fear associated with dental treatment by analyzing the fear levels for dental treatment, the influential factors for the fear, the general characteristics of patients and the correlations between trust in dental care professionals and satisfaction with dental treatment. Methods : The subjects were 400 workers at 5 industrial sites, which got health management conducted by health management agencies, among small and medium industrial sites located in the Gyeongbuk region of South Korea during a period of February to March, 2009. Results & Conclusion : 1. Of the subjects, 134 (30.7%) and 303 (69.3%) persons had high and low fear levels of dental treatment respectively. 2. The fear levels of dental treatment were higher in women than men, and significantly high in proportion to the patients' subjective bad health levels and past dental care fear frequencies. 3. The fear associated with dental treatment was significantly correlated to the trust in dentists.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2014

The objective of this study was to examine possible causes of fear of dental treatment in middle school students. The subjects were a total of 347 students who were selected by convenience sampling from among the students of the middle schools located in Cheongju, Korea. They were administered a self report survey. The results showed that overall dental fear was higher among female students than male students. With respect to associative dental fears, they felt fear the most when they waited sitting on the dental chair. In fears of specific dental stimuli, needles were the most fearful stimulus. In the areas of fears of specific dental stimuli and overall dental fear, the subjects with indirect pain experiences felt fear more. There exists a need to develop dental health care programs that will help to manage and decrease fear of dental treatment.