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

Han, Ok-Sung (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School, Chonnam National University)
Lee, Jae-Ra (Department of Public Health, Graduate School, Chosun University)
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Journal of dental hygiene science / v.13, no.4, 2013 , pp. 410-417 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Infection; Infection control;
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