Relationship of Oral Health Education Experience to Oral Health Awareness among Shipbuilding Workers

It's basically meant to make a contribution to the promotion of the oral health of shipbuilding workers and to the improvement of oral health education planning, industrial oral health policy setting and the related system, as it seems that the working environments of shipbuilding workers are very harsh due to the unique characteristics of their working process. The subjects in this study were the workers who were selected by convenience sampling from shipbuilding companies and their subcontractors in South Jeolla Province that numbered 10. The workers were surveyed to determine the relationship between their oral health education experience and oral health awareness, and the findings of the study were as follows: Out of the 310 workers investigated, 89.4 percent had no experience to receive oral health education, those who had no experience to receive oral health education fell behind in terms of oral health knowledge, awareness, concern and perception of oral health importance, and there was close correlation among their oral health knowledge, awareness, concern and perception of oral health importance. Those without oral health education experience cited lack of opportunities as the reason, the workers preferred to receive education about the prevention and treatment of dental caries, and their favorite educational method was lectures given by dentists, the workers who had oral health education experience had a more intention to receive oral health education than the others who hadn't.

조선소 근로자들의 구강보건교육경험 유무에 따른 구강보건인식의 차이

작업공정 특성상 작업환경이 열악하다고 판단되는 조선소 근로자의 구강보건증진과 구강보건교육계획, 산업구강보건정책 및 제도 개선에 기여하고자 편의표본추출법에 의해 선정한 전남 지역 조선소 및 협력업체 10곳에 근무하는 조선소 근로자를 대상으로 구강보건교육 경험에 따른 구강보건인식의 차이를 알아보기 위하여 조사한 결과는 다음과 같다. 연구대상자 310명 중 구강보건교육경험이 없는 근로자는 89.4%이었고, 구강보건교육 무경험자는 구강보건 지식정도, 인식정도, 관심정도, 중요정도가 낮은 것으로 나타났으며 구강보건 지식정도, 인식정도, 관심정도, 중요정도 간에는 상관관계가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 구강보건교육 무경험자가 구강보건교육을 받지 못하는 이유는 기회가 없었기 때문인 것으로 나타났고 선호하는 교육내용은 치아우식증예방 및 치료법, 선호하는 교육방법은 치의사의 강연인 것으로 나타났으며 구강보건교육 경험이 있는 근로자일수록 구강보건교육 경험이 없는 근로자보다 구강보건교육에 참여할 의향이 있는 것으로 나타났다.