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http://dx.doi.org/10.17135/jdhs.2015.15.5.542

Oral Health Belief and Oral Health Behavior of Taxi Driver in Jeollabuk-do  

Kim, Sun-Mi (Department of Social and Humanity in Dentistry, Dental College, Wonkwang University School of Dentistry)
Lee, Heung-Soo (Department of Preventive and Public Health Dentistry, Wonkwang University School of Dentistry)
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Journal of dental hygiene science / v.15, no.5, 2015 , pp. 542-550 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the oral health behavior and oral health belief of transportation workers. The subjects in this study were 270 selected taxi drivers who engaged in the taxi transportation industry in Jeollabuk-do. They were selected by convenience sampling. To determine the influence of their general characteristics and oral health belief on scaling experience and oral health education experience, a logistic regression analysis was made. And a multiple regression analysis was made by selecting general characteristics and oral health behavior as independent variables and by selecting oral health belief as a dependent variable. A statistical package SPSS for Windows ver. 12.0 was employed to make all the statistical analysis. As a result of making the logistic regression analysis, benefit that was one of the subfactors of oral health belief had something to do with oral health education experience, and the subfactors that exerted an influence on scaling experience were benefit, susceptibility and barrier. When the multiple regression analysis was carried out to find out influential factors for oral health belief, monthly mean income had an impact on susceptibility and barrier among the subfactors of oral health belief, and self-rated oral health status affected seriousness and barrier. There were differences among the taxi drivers in oral health belief according to their own characteristics, and oral health belief was linked to oral health behavior. Therefore oral health belief and oral health behavior should be taken into account when it's planned to promote the oral health of taxi drivers.
Keywords
Health belief model; Oral health behavior; Oral health belief; Taxi driver;
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