Awareness of Teachers in a Region on School Dental Clinics and Preventive Programs

A survey was conducted from September 9 to November 2, 2013, on 277 teachers in 10 different elementary schools to find out about their awareness of school dental clinics and preventive oral health programs. The schools were selected by convenience sampling from the city of Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. Out of the teachers, 133 teachers worked in five elementary schools equipped with school dental clinics, and 144 teachers worked in the other five elementary schools that weren't equipped with school dental clinics. As for data analysis, an IBM SPSS 21.0 was utilized as well. As a result of analyzing their opinions on the top priority of oral health programs, the teachers from the schools equipped with school dental clinics placed the most importance on application of fluorides and oral health education (71.1%), and the teachers from the schools without school dental clinics gave top priority to oral health education (76.5%). The 87.0% of the former replied that there was improvement in the oral health status of the students. The 74.4% of the latter answered they had never heard about school oral health programs, but 85.8% expected the introduction of school oral health programs to be of use for the improvement of the oral health state of the students. The 57.7% of the teachers from the schools with school dental clinics didn't think there were sufficient human resources who could be responsible for preventive oral health programs. As the successful performance of oral health programs by school dental clinics exerts a huge influence on not only the oral health promotion of school organizational members but that of community members, schools that aren't yet equipped with dental clinics should be informed about the necessity of school dental clinics, and the government should put more efforts into publicity activities about school dental clinics.

일부지역 교사의 학교구강보건실 및 예방사업 인지

2013년 9월 9일부터 11월 2일까지 편의추출법에 의해 전라북도 군산시 소재의 학교구강보건실을 운영 중인 5개 초등학교 교사 133명과 설치 운영하지 않는 5개 초등학교 교사 144명을 대상으로 학교구강보건실 및 예방사업 인지에 대해 설문지를 이용하여 조사한 후 IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 프로그램으로 빈도분석과 교차분석을 실시하였다. 중요하다고 생각하는 구강건강사업의 우선순위에 대해 학교구강보건실 운영 학교에서는 불소도포와 구강보건교육(71.1%)을, 비 운영 학교 교사들은 구강보건교육(76.5%)을 가장 중요하게 생각하고 있었다. 학교구강보건실 운영 학교 교사 87.0%는 학생들의 구강건강상태가 개선되었다고 하였다. 학교구강보건실 비 운영 학교 교사 74.4%는 학교구강보건사업에 대해 들어본 적이 없다고 하였으나 85.8%의 교사들이 학교구강보건사업이 실시된다면 학생의 구강건강상태가 나아질 것으로 기대하고 있었다. 학교구강보건실 운영학교의 57.7%는 예방사업인력이 충분치 않다고 하였다. 이상으로 학교구강보건실의 원활한 사업수행은 학교 구성원들의 구강건강증진과 나아가 지역사회 구성원들에게도 많은 영향을 끼치게 되므로 구강보건실 비 운영 학교를 대상으로 학교구강보건실 설치의 필요성에 대한 국가적 차원의 적극적인 홍보가 필요하다.