한국치위생학회지 (Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene)
- 제8권3호
- /
- Pages.73-84
- /
- 2008
- /
- 2287-1705(pISSN)
- /
- 2288-2294(eISSN)
노인의 구강건강 장애요인에 관한 연구
A Study of Factors of Oral Health Diseases among the Elderly
- Ahn, Kwon-Suk (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Chodang University) ;
- Ji, Min-Gyeong (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Jeonbuk Science College)
- 발행 : 2008.09.30
초록
This study conducted an interview questionnaire survey of 245 old people in some halls for the aged in the Daejeon Metropolitan City from June 1 to 31, 2008. on their attitudes toward and practice items for oral health, resulting in the following findings. 1. In terms of socio-demographic characteristics of the subjects, males females were 48.2% and 51.8% respectively, and in the educational level, no-education, elementary school graduation, middle school graduation, and high school graduation and higher were 27.8%, 33.9%, 26.5%, and 11.8%, respectively, showing the statistically significant difference (p=0.009). 2. In terms of attitudes toward oral health management by oral health care education, regarding questions of use of oral and dental hygiene products (p=0.016), experience in scaling, and whether or not they wear false teeth (p=0.018), a group having received the education rather than a group not having received it showed more positive oral health management attitudes, indicating the statistically significant difference. 3. In daily living inconvenience of acute oral health diseases according to oral health care education, acute oral diseases presents in a group with the education (