• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.151-159
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate oral behavior and quality of life for soldiers. Because this study basis data for the oral health education for soldiers. A total of 400 soldiers in Seoul and Gyeonggi area were surveyed and 361 data were collected. The data were analyzed by the SPSS 19.0 program. Soldiers felt that there were oral health moderated, and oral hygiene behavior was not high. Also, soldiers answer that oral health education is necessary and there was a statistically significant correlation between self rated oral health status and the need for oral health education. As the physical health, mental and social health of soldiers is related to oral health, it seems that the oral health education of soldiers should be regularly and this study can be used basic data of oral health education of soldiers.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.201-209
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• 2019

A convergence study of oral health beliefs and subjective oral health awareness-knowledge factors of some university students was conducted on 216 students agreed from April 1 to June 14, 2019. Satistical analysis was performed with the mean and standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation test. The oral health beliefs were 3.87 and oral health knowledge, oral health importance measured by 5-point, oral health interest and oral health status are 11.9, 1.50, 2.36, 2.67 respectively. The need for constant oral health education so that changes in oral health beliefs of university students and subjective oral health awareness-perception ability can be improved. Oral health education programs should be developed to suit the characteristics of university students.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.90-97
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• 2019

In order to identify relationships between oral health management behavior and subjective oral health perception and oral acid production in small and medium industry workers, an examination on oral acid production and a survey were conducted. As a result, the subjective oral health status, which is subjective oral health perception, was found to have a significant effect on oral acid production, and the worse the subjective oral health status was, the higher the oral acid production was. As the subjective oral health perception is expected to be helpful for the development of industrial oral health programs to improve oral health of workers, organizational and institutional efforts for industrial oral health education will be necessary for improvement of subjective oral health perception of workers.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.91-97
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• 2019

The aim of this study was to compare effects of oral health education on oral health behavior according to demographic and dental health-related characteristics in inpatient alcoholics. 62 alcoholic male patients were recruited to 32 patients at education group and 30 at non-education group. To search demographic and dental health-related characteristics, the self-administered structured questionnaires were used, and the survey was conducted before and after the oral health education. The oral health education program was consisted of 40 mins theoretical education and individual tooth brushing training once a week for 4 weeks. The oral health education for alcoholic patients had big effects on oral health behavior. And these results indicate that if oral health program was performed systematically in alcohol counseling centers or alcohol hospitals, more oral health promotion effects will appear.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2013

This study aims to measure oral health knowledge and practice level among dental clinic patients, and examine their relationships with decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMF) index and the oral health-related quality of life (QOL). Empirical data have been collected from 311 patients through structured questionnaires and dental examinations conducted in Busan area. According to the analysis of causal relationship, oral health knowledge turned out to have a direct effect on oral health practices, which exerted both direct and indirect effects on DMF index and oral health-related QOL. While DMF index directly affected the oral health-related QOL, oral health knowledge proved to have only an indirect effect on DMF index and oral health-related QOL, mediated by oral health practices. Considering all these findings, effective oral health education and other intervention programs should focus on motivating people to participate in the active practices of desirable oral health behaviors, which will lead to the prevention of oral diseases and the subsequent improvement in the QOL.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.197-202
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the oral health promotion behavior of adolescents in an effort to help improve policy selling on oral health projects and determine how to teach teens to promote their oral health throughout their lives. The findings of the study were as follows: First, among different sons of oral health promotion behavior, they were best at improving oral nutritive conditions. Second, they differed from one another according to grade and age in improving oral nutritive conditions, and income made a difference to getting oral-related social support. Third, there was generally a significant correlation among the variables that concerned oral health promotion behavior. The effort by this study to grasp the oral health promotion behavior of teenagers is expected to provide useful information on how to encourage students to get into the right oral habit.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.485-492
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• 2017

This study investigated the relevancy between the subjective awareness and the level of knowledge of oral health by surveying oral health management behaviors of elderly citizens over 60 years old in certain areas. The survey was conducted from September 1 to December 30, 2016 among the elderly aged 60 or older in the GyeongBuk, and 442 responses were used in the data analysis. The statistical analysis methods were frequency analysis, t-test and ANOVA analysis. The subjective oral health awareness in accordance with oral health management behaviors were higher in the groups who brush their teeth better and for longer duration (p<.05), where the oral health knowledge level in accordance with oral health management behaviors were higher in the groups who received toothbrushing training (p<.05). Based on the above results, the subjective oral health awareness and the oral health knowledge level of elderly citizens should be improved through continuous educations for ideal oral health management behaviors in order to promote oral health of elderly citizens.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 2016

The research had an investigation of relevance between functional oral health literacy, oral health knowledge, and oral health behaviors of college students. Survey of 410 students in K city college done from June 22 to 26, 2015 was analyzed, and the final analysis subject was 398 students. The result were 281(70.6) students with experience of oral health education, 117(29.4) students without experience of education, and there were 194(48.7) students who had difficulty several times with the material and explanation while attending the education, and 128(32.2) students who had difficulty a few times. Scores of functional oral health literacy were low for more than half of the college students. The higher the functional oral health literacy score, the higher oral health knowledge was shown, and oral health knowledge turned out to be affecting functional oral health literacy. Therefore, an effective program for delivering oral health knowledge to improve low functional oral health literacy of college students must be developed.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.59-66
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• 2019

This study was conducted to investigate correlation between oral health belief and oral health-related quality of life (OHIP-14) based on oral health education experience. A survey was conducted on adults living in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam region. Collected data was analyzed using SPSS 25.0. As a result, adults with oral health education experience had significantly higher scores in subfactors of oral health belief and subfactors of oral health-related quality of life than adults without oral health education experience. There were correlations between factors in oral health education experience, oral health belief, and oral health-related quality of life. Therefore, operating oral health education program by life cycle will promote oral health as well as will help to enhance the importance and necessity of oral health education by improving quality of life.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.21-27
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• 2008

This research aims to investigate into company workers' general characteristics and their awareness of the hygiene of the mouth and practice of it, in order to prepare schemes to improve the hygiene of their mouth. The findings of the research are listed in the following: First, the workers have a high level of awareness of the effect of tooth-brushing to prevent periodontal diseases but a low degree of awareness of its effect to prevent decayed teeth and of the necessity of mouth hygienic supplies. Second, they have a high level of awareness of the necessity and importance of scaling, but most of them do not have their teeth scaled periodically. To repeat, they have a high level of awareness of the necessity of dental examination, but not many of them put such awareness of theirs into practice. Third, married workers have a higher level of awareness of the hygiene of their mouth than unmarried ones do. The higher concern they have about the hygiene of their mouth, the more awareness they have of the hygiene of their mouth. Fourth, the higher monthly average income they have, the more frequently they put into practice their awareness of the hygiene of their mouth. And the poorer hygiene of their mouth they have, the more strongly they put into practice their awareness of the hygiene of their mouth.