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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.6.237

Factors affecting perception of oral health prevention  

Lee, Kyeong-Hee (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Shin han University)
Jung, Eun-Seo (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Shin han University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.6, 2017 , pp. 237-247 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to understand the relationship between the awareness of oral health prevention and general characteristics by investigating the awareness of oral health prevention and to provide basic data to make oral health education guidelines for oral health prevention and the need for oral health prevention by analyzing factors that influence the awareness of oral health prevention. For about a month since December 2016, the data of 380 people aged 10 and over residing in Seoul and the Gyeonggi Province was gathered, and the following results have been obtained after excluding 19 people whose answers were insufficient. It was found that gender (female, p<0.05), age (50 years and over, p<0.05), educational background (high school diploma and university diploma or higher, p<0.05), average monthly income (KRW 3.0 million - 4.0 million, p<0.05), oral health importance (p<0.001), and awareness of the need for oral health prevention (p<0,001) among the selected independent variables had statistically significant effects on the awareness of oral health prevention. Considering the results above, I believe that it is important to develop oral health education programs, which reflect the characteristics of people in order to motivate them to perform prevention activities, rather than education programs about simply acquiring knowledge for prevention activities and to establish social conditions that can enable continued education, in order to increase the awareness of oral health prevention activities.
Keywords
Oral health; Oral health importance; Oral health education; Prevention; Perception;
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