Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene (한국치위생학회지)
- Volume 7 Issue 3
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- Pages.259-271
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- 2007
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- 2287-1705(pISSN)
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- 2288-2294(eISSN)
A study on knowledge and attitude of dental hygienics students in AIDS
치위생과 학생들의 에이즈에 관한 지식과 태도 조사 연구
Abstract
AIDS is increasing by geometric progression in the world with more seriousness and HIV/AIDS is still spreading. Thus, the study enforced a self-administered survey with 526 dental hygiennics students to carry out an upright recognition and education on AIDS by grasping knowledge and attitude of dental hygienics students who will work at dental hospitals or clinics after graduating in AIDS. As the result, the study got the following conclusion. 1. 51.1% of the students got knowledge on AIDS and the majority out of them got its knowledge through school(35.2%) or mass media(10.8%). 2. The average score of dental hygienics students' knowledge in AIDS was 87.67: The first-grade students(86.00), the second-grade students(88.88) and the third-grade students(88.37) (p=0.000). 3. They had an accurate recognition about AIDS' causes, its infection ways and interceptive methods of its infection way in knowledge of AIDS(p=0.000). 4. In their attitudes for AIDS, the average score was