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The Dental Hygienists' Perception of the National Practical Examination

치과위생사의 국가 실기시험에 대한 인식

  • Ko, Da-Kyung (Department of Dental Hygiene, Hanseo University) ;
  • Bae, Sung-Suk (Department of Dental Hygiene, Hanseo University)
  • 고다경 (한서대학교 치위생학과) ;
  • 배성숙 (한서대학교 치위생학과)
  • Received : 2016.10.27
  • Accepted : 2016.11.26
  • Published : 2016.12.31

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine dental hygienists' perception of the current national practical examination. This research was performed using 199 self-reported surveys answered by professors of dental hygiene studies and clinical dental hygienist. Frequency analysis, chi-square tests, and analysis of variance were performed by using IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 20.0. The results revealed that many of the respondents consider the current national practical examination to be neutral. They did not think that the current national practical examination questions are useful for assessing occupation-centric integrated clinical practice ability and counseling techniques for patient intervention. The professors of dental hygiene studies believed that among the research tasks required as mentioned in the national practical examination questions, dental polishing and tooth brushing education are of paramount importance, whereas clinical dental hygienists believed that ultrasonic scaling is the most important (p<0.05). Most of the professors of dental hygiene studies reported that they conducted skills education for dental polishing and tooth brushing education, while most of the clinical dental hygienists reported that tasks actually performed in the clinic included impression taking, model fabrication, ultrasonic scaling, and explaining treatment precautions (p<0.05). Therefore, these tasks can be effectively carried out with the improvement of the national dental hygienist practical examination.

본 연구는 치과위생사가 임상에서 실질적인 업무 수행을 위한 역량을 강화하기 위하여 종합적이고 효율적인 국가 실기시험의 개선 방안을 마련하기 위하여 수행되었으며 연구대상은 치위생(학)과 교수 101명(50.8%)과 임상치과위생사 98명(49.2%)이 참여하였다. 연구의 결과로 현행 국가 실기시험의 공정성에 대한 의견은 치위생(학)과 교수 41.6%(42명), 임상치과위생사 56.1% (55명)가 '보통이다'라고 응답하였고, 현행 국가 실기시험이 직무중심의 종합적인 임상실기능력을 평가할 수 있는지를 조사한 결과, 치위생(학)과 교수 36.6% (37명)가 '보통이다'라고 응답하였고, 임상 치과위생사 56.1% (55명)는 '평가할 수 없다'라고 응답하였다(p<0.05). 또한 환자 중재의 상담기법을 평가할 수 있는지를 조사한 결과에서는 치위생(학)과 교수 72.3% (73명), 임상 치과위생사 72.4% (71명)가 '평가할 수 없다'는 응답이 매우 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 국가 실기시험의 문항으로 반드시 필요한 업무인지를 조사한 결과, 치위생(학)과 교수는 '치면연마'와 '칫솔질 교육'이 99.0% (100명)로 각각 가장 높았고 인상채득, 치주기구조작, 치면열구전색 98.0%(99명) 순으로 나타났다. 임상치과위생사에서는 '초음파 치석제거'가 86.7% (85명)로 가장 높게 나타났고, 인상채득 및 칫솔질 교육이 78.6% (77명) 순이었다(p<0.05). 치위생(학)과 교수를 대상으로 조사한 실습교육 여부는 '치면연마' 및 '칫솔질 교육'이 '교육한다'라고 응답한 경우가 99.0%(100명)로 높게 나타났으며 이어 '인상채득'과 '치주기구조작', '치면열구전색'이 98.0% (99명) 순으로 나타났다, 임상치과위생사가 임상에서 실제 수행하는 다빈도 업무는 '인상채득', '모형제작', '초음파 치석제거', '진료 주의사항 설명'이 99.0% (97명)로 가장 많았고 '진료기록부 작성'과 '임시부착물 장착 및 제거', '기구세척'이 98.0% (96명) 순으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 이상의 결과로 현행 국가 실기시험에 대한 치위생(학)과 교수 및 임상 치과위생사들의 인식과 평가 그리고 국가시험 문항으로의 중요도, 다빈도 수행업무 등에 대하여 알 수 있었고, 이를 바탕으로 향후 종합적이고 포괄적인 치과위생사 국가시험 개선의 기초 자료로 활용되기를 기대한다.

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