A Study on Awareness and Degree of Practice about Infection Control by Dental Hygienics Student's in Some Ares

일부지역 치위생과 학생의 감염관리 인식 및 실천도에 관한 조사

  • Han, Ok-Sung (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Ra (Department of Public Health, Graduate School, Chosun University)
  • 한옥성 (전남대학교 일반대학원 의공학협동과정) ;
  • 이재라 (조선대학교 대학원 보건학과)
  • Received : 2013.10.08
  • Accepted : 2013.11.13
  • Published : 2013.12.31

Abstract

This research surveyed 324 college students majored dental hygiene in Gwangju and Chonnam province to analyze their awareness and degree of practice about infection control. Through the study for recognition about infectious disease related with the grade, the sophomore students are the group who is the most aware. In addition, the study shows students who experienced teeth cleaning have high degree of awareness (p<0.05). The research of perception about infectious disease based on experiences for vaccinations and education about infection prevention says hepatitis B has the highest rate when it comes to level of occurrence risk and tuberculosis and acquired immune deficiency syndrome are the lowest (p<0.05). According to the research, the group who had vaccination, knowledge about infection prevention and experience for scaling shows high practice rate for hand washing according to whether students receive protective inoculation or not. Depending on what the result were, since student learned about infection control has high degree of recognition and practice about infection management if we could emphasize the importance to students through regulative education about infection control and then increase the degree of practice, it would make big contributions to the effective infection control.

본 연구는 치위생과 학생들의 감염관리 인식 및 실천도를 분석하고자 2013년 3월 25일부터 6월 14일까지 광주 및 전남지역의 치위생과에 재학중인 학생 324명을 대상으로 설문조사 실시하였으며 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 학년별에 따른 감염성 질환에 대한 인식도를 조사한 결과 2학년이 가장 높게 나타났으며, 환자대상 스켈링 경험이 있는 경우가 감염성 질환에 대한 인식도가 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 2. 예방접종여부와 감염방지 교육경험에 따른 감염성 질환 인식도를 조사한 결과 예방접종 여부 및 감염방지 교육 경험 따른 감염성 질환 발생위험 수위의 경우 'B형 간염'이 가장 높은 비율을 보였고, '결핵', 'AIDS'가 가장 낮게 나타났다(p<0.05). 3. 연구 대상자의 특성에 따른 손씻기 실천도는 학년이 올라갈수록 중요시 생각하고 실천하는 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 4. 예방접종여부에 따른 손씻기 실천도는 예방접종, 감염 방지 교육경험, 환자대상 스켈링 경험이 있는 군이 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 이상의 결과로 볼 때 감염관리교육을 경험한 학생들의 감염관리 인식 및 실천도가 높게 나타났으므로 정기적인 감염 관리 교육을 통하여 중요성을 인식시키고 실천도를 높일 수 있는 효과적인 감염관리에 크게 기여할 것으로 생각된다.

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