한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지 (The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education)
- 제12권2호
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- Pages.69-80
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- 2011
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- 1975-7697(pISSN)
학령전기 아동의 치아우식증 발생에 영향을 미치는 요인 조사 - 충남 일부지역 아동을 중심으로 -
Study on the factors affecting dental caries of preschool children. - Study focused on preschool children in province, Chugcheongnam-do -
- Bae, Sung-Suk (Department of Dental Hygiene, Hanseo University) ;
- Noh, Hie-Jin (Department of Dental Hygiene, Kangwon National University)
- 투고 : 2011.08.21
- 심사 : 2011.10.15
- 발행 : 2011.10.31
초록
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore relationship among dft index, diet and oral health behavior, parental awareness in oral health care and social status. Methods: This study was conducted from 8 January, 2009 to 11 June, 2009 in Asan city and Seosan city in Chungnam area. 4 kindergratens, 3 preschools and 1 children language academy were randomly selected to research on dft index, diet and oral health behavior. cross-sectional study conducted among 561 valid samples out of 641 samples collected using the survey was and then followed by oral examination. Throughout the research, numerus SPSS 15.0 statistical techniques, T-test and ANOVA and Spearman correlation coefficients were used for analysis. Results: Key results of the study are as follows: Age was found to be statistically very significant to dft index(p=0.036). Age of mother, especially between 30 to 49, was found to be statistically significant to dft index rate(p=0.001). Occupation of father was also found to be statistically significant to dft index(p=0.036). High parental awareness in oral health care led to low dft index rate, which also was found to be statistically significant(p=0.036). Conclusions: In conclusion, as Spearman correlation coefficient demonstrates, occupation of father affects most on long-term healthy oral behavior followed by parental awareness in oral health care and age of mother.