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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2017.7.6.009

The Convergence Research on Oral Health Care Behavior of Fire Officers  

Bak, Young-Seok (Department of Emergency Medical Service, Sun Moon University)
Jung, Su-Jin (Department of Dental hygiene, Konyang University)
Lee, Mi-Ra (Department of Dental Hygiene, Baekseok Culture University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.7, no.6, 2017 , pp. 9-17 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted in 241 fire officers at fire stations in Daejeon Metropolitan City to determine their oral health care behavior status and obtained the following results: First, men were more likely to brush their teeth 3 times a day and women were more likely to brush their teeth 4 times a day; those who were in their twenties and had ${\leq}5$ years of career brushed their teeth for ${\geq}3$ minutes. Second, the respondents who were in their twenties and thirties and had <10 years of career were more likely to use auxiliary oral hygiene devices and fire captains and those at higher positions were more likely to have received oral health education. Third, the respondents having received oral health education were more likely to use auxiliary oral hygiene devices and to have their teeth scaling within a year. While the fire officers were fortunately at good levels of oral health care, taking the poor working environment into account, the efforts to develop job-customized oral health programs in which IT and robot technologies are combined to improve oral health and take measures to publicize the programs and to give better treatment to fire officers are expected to put them in better oral health care status.
Keywords
Fire officer; Oral health care behavior; Tooth-brushing; Oral health education; Auxiliary oral hygiene device;
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