• 치위생과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 근로자의 구강건조증상과 다양한 구강자각증상에 대하여 알아보고 근로자의 구강건강관련 삶의 질에 미치는 요인들에 대해 조사 분석하여 근로자의 구강건강증진을 도모하는 프로그램개발을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 2012년 8월 1일부터 9월 20일까지 전라북도 소재의 5개의 산업장 근로자를 대상으로 분석한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 구강건조증상은 사무직 근로자가 2.59점으로 영업직 근로자 1.71점보다 유의하게 구강건조증상 정도가 높았다 (p<0.001). 2. OHIP-14는 비정규직이 2.05점, 정규직이 1.82점으로 나타났다(p<0.00 1). 3. 구강건조증상은 OHIP-14와 양의 상관관계를 보였다 (r=0.456). OHIP-14는 연령과는 양의 상관관계를 보였으며 (r=0.209), 최종학력과 음의 상관관계를 보였다(r=-0.136). 4. 구강건조증상이 심할수록(${\beta}=0.383$, p<0.001), 연령이 높을수록(${\beta}=0.221$, p<0.001), 치과질환을 갖고 있다고 느꼈을 때(${\beta}=0.146$, p<0.01) OHIP-14에 유의하게 영향을 미치는 요인으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 위와 같이 근로자들의 구강건강관련 삶의 질에 영향을 미치는 요인을 참고하여 산업장 근로자의 구강건강증진을 도모하는 프로그램을 개발하고 국가보건정책 부분에서 산업구강보건 개선을 위해 적극 고려해야 할 것으로 생각된다.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.180-190
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• 2022

Background: Like direct infection from COVID-19, psychological concern about infection could affect health. Concern about COVID-19 infection was associated with individual habits to practice rules for preventing infection. Therefore, this study aimed to check occupational types and whether to practice tooth brushing after lunch depending on the occupation of economic workers and find correlations between concerns about infection due to COVID-19 pandemic and tooth brushing after lunch. Methods: The raw data was from the community health survey conducted in 2020. Among 229,269 adult participants aged 19 years and older, 138,970 economic workers were included in the final analysis. The chi-squared test was used to find differences in psychological concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the participants, the rate of practicing tooth brushing after lunch was based on COVID-19-related psychological concerns. Multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted to check the influence of psychological concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic on the rate of practicing tooth brushing after lunch. Results: According to occupational classifications, professionals and office workers and career soldiers had 1.551- and 1.581-times higher practicing rates than managers, respectively, whereas machine operators, agricultural and fishery sector workers, and daily laborers had lower practicing rates. Regarding COVID-19-related psychological concerns, the group with a lower concern about infection had a 1.076 times higher practicing rate than that with greater concern. The group with greater concern about blame from neighbors had 1.119 times higher practicing rate than that with lower concern. Conclusion: The correlations between higher economic workers' concerns about infection and blame from neighbors and higher recognition of the necessity to prevent COVID-19 and practice tooth brushing after lunch were confirmed. It is necessary to prepare measures for practicing tooth brushing after lunch suitable to the characteristics of occupational types and work environments of economic workers.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.477-488
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate career competency, tasks, and job satisfaction of public servants, public institutions, and researchers. Methods: The survey was conducted about career competency, job satisfaction, and satisfaction on work life. Next, they interviewed on the characteristics of each job by two or three dimensions. The following conclusions were obtained from July to August 2017. Results: Career competencies were GPA with 3.87, 818 points of TOEIC score, and ITQ certification. Public servants required the information on literacy skills for employment and job performance, while civil servants need more than one year of clinical experience in the dental hospital. The non-commissioned officer needed a written test and fitness training. The health insurance review and assessment center required more than one year of experience from general hospital or medical institutions. Researchers required a research career, language skill, and professors required research and teaching experiences with clinical experience more than three years. The main job tasks were as follows; for public servants, they were official document processing and community projects. For the civilian workers and military/noncommissioned officers, they were medical assistant and administrative works. The employees of the health insurance review and assessment service are examining the medical expenses and the medical examination, the researchers are experimenting, researching and writing articles, and the teaching staff are lecturing and conducting individual research. Conclusions: The results of job satisfaction survey showed that occupational satisfaction was the highest in civil servants, researchers, and teaching professions. Job security was the highest in health workers and health inspectors' evaluation centers, and time vacancy was the highest in civilian workers and military/noncommissioned officers. If you want to work in such an institution, you should prepare elements that match your basic literacy and job specific characteristics. And we should try to increase the satisfaction of work even after work.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.4959-4967
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• 2011

본 연구는 근로자들을 대상으로 구강건강상태 및 관련요인을 파악하여 구강건강증진을 향상시키기 위하여 경상남도지역 일부 근로자 178명을 대상으로 자기기입식 설문지를 작성하게 하여 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 치아우식증이 있는 군에서 지난 1년간 치과방문경험이 있거나 치석제거경험이 있다고 응답한자에서 치아우식증이 없는 군보다 낮게 나타나 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.05). 치아우식증이 있는 군에서 치아가 쑤시거나 욱신거리며 아픈 경험이 있다고 응답한 자가 51.3%, 잇몸이 아프거나 피가 난 경험이 있다 48.7%, 불쾌한 입냄새 경험이 있다 53.8%로 나타나 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.05). 치은염증이 있는 군에서 지난 1년간 치석제거경험이 없거나 치은염증이 없는 군보다 낮게 나타났다(p<.001). 치은염증이 있는 군에서 하루 칫솔질 회수는 3회이상이 9.6%, 취침전 칫솔질을 항상 했다 4.7%, 구강위생보조용품 이용은 대부분 했다 5.9%로 나타나 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.001) 치아우식증 유무에 영향을 미치는 변수로는 주관적 구강증상, 치실 또는 치간칫솔 사용여부, 구취증상 변인으로 파악되었고, 치은 염증 유무에 영향을 미치는 변수로는 취침직후 칫솔질 유무, 혀통증 증상, 구취증상, 시린치아증상, 스켈링경험여부 변인으로 파악되었다. 이상 구강검진을 통한 상담과 교육을 통해 근로자들의 구강건강에 대한 의식을 고취시켜 근로자들의 구강건강을 증진 유지시키는데 도움이 되는 방향으로 개선되어야 될 것이다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.251-263
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• 2019

Objectives: To establish foundations for reinforcing radiation safety management in dental facilities. Methods: This study investigated the status of radiation safety management among radiation workers in dental facilities nationwide for a period of six months from July to December in 2018 and analyzed the factors that affect their compliance with radiation safety measures. Results: Compliance with safety measures was higher in the Honam region (p<0.01) and Yeongnam region (p<0.01), in university hospitals and general hospitals (p<0.05), along with an increasing perception of the importance of safety management (p<0.001). Conclusions: It is important to strengthen education about radiation safety management, develop a radiation safety guideline that could be reasonably applied to dental institutions, and implement relevant regulations or legal grounds to promote compliance with these measures.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.1119-1127
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• 2012

Objectives : The aim of this study was to examine the level of oral health knowledge, oral health importance, oral health status and oral health interest of the social workers engaged in child care facilities to analyze the influential factors on oral health promotion activities and provide the basic data for oral health promotion activities. Methods : The subjects in this study were those social workers engaged in child care facilities from May 15th to May 25th in 2011. The self-report questionnaires were distributed and withdrawn and then a total of 205 papers from the subjects that participated in this study were analyzed for the final analysis. Results : 1. Oral health knowledge had $12.16{\pm}1.66$ in a full score of 15 and oral health importance, oral health status and oral health interest were $1.12{\pm}0.36$, $2.80{\pm}0.50$ and $2.14{\pm}0.8$ respectively in a full score of 5. 2. According to the general characteristics, the difference analysis of cognition-recognition factors showed that singles had significantly higher oral health knowledge married couples (p<0.05) and the social workers unusing auxiliary oral hygiene devices had significantly higher oral health interest than those using them(p<0.01). 3. The mean of oral health promotion was $3.28{\pm}0.51$, characteristics of detailed specific-area were as follows ; the toothbrushing was $3.77{\pm}0.57$, the use of fluoride was $2.67{\pm}0.98$, periodic dental screening and treatment were $2.98{\pm}1.09$ and eating habits was $4.14{\pm}0.57$. These results generally showed tooth-brushing and eating habits show a little higher figures. 4. Considering the factors oral health promotion behaviors of social workers engaged in child care facilities, the higher oral health interest was, the higher oral health promotion behavior was. Conclusions : It seems that social workers engaged in child care facilities are required to pay attention to the importance of oral health and learn oral health knowledge, which will lead to much better improvement of oral health for children brought up by them.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.295-309
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• 2006

This study was conducted among 831 industrial workers in Gumi City in Gyung-Sang-Buk Do for the purpose of acquiring knowledge to improve quality of life though industrial workers' oral health promotion. Oral examination and questionnaire surveying were used to evaluate workers' oral health state and subjective health state and analyze their effect on quality of life. 1. The number of workers in the study were 831 in all; there were more males who accounted for 74.6%. 43.7% of the subject were 29 years old, accounting for the largest age group. Their academic backgrounds are 53.6% workers who graduated from high schools or lower educational institutions, and 46.4% workers who graduated from college or higher educational institutions. 80.7% of the subjects replied that their economic state belonged to the middle class. Their job classification indicates that 70.2% were working in production and engineering fields and that the seniority of 55.3% workers was less than 55.3%. 2. The result of evaluating the effects of oral health state on individual well-being and quality of life using OHIP indicates that younger people, singles(p<0.01) than the married, those in worse economic situation and those with shorter seniority(p<0.01) had higher effect of oral health state on quality of life. In addition, those whose health or oral health was not good (p<0.01), those with liked tough texture of food and snacks(p<0.05), those with more frequency of drinking(p<0.01) and those with more smoking tended to have higher effect of oral health state on daily life or quality of life. Besides, OHIP confirmed that oral health state is a measurement tool that can evaluate its effect on individual well-being and quality of life. The suggestion for future studies is to develop Korean style OHIP that can be used conveniently and efficiently by expanding the subject area up to the whole country and validating the samples gained from random sampling.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2018

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of noise from dental clinics on workers and to establish a reduction plan. The noise generated by the treatment instrument(Ultrasonic scaler, Hand piece, 3-way syringe, Suction, Compressor) was measured in order to determine the characteristics(level, frequency) of the noise during medical treatment(Oral prophylaxis, Conservation treatment, Prosthesis treatment, Implant Scaling, Tooth eliminating). We also assessed the noise levels in dental clinic using evaluation indicators such as NR-curves and NRN. The results of the analysis showed that the noise generated during the treatment was 85dB(A) ~ 70dB(A) and that the high frequency component was dominant, which would affect the workers working at the dental clinic. The NR-curve analysis showed NR-67 to NR-83 and the high frequency components of 4kHz to 8kHz were predominant and far exceeded noise levels in the workplace. To minimize the noise damage of workers and to provide high quality medical service, it is necessary to establish countermeasures such as wearing a soundproof and periodic hearing tests.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.47-63
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• 1989

The study was made to clarify the degree of fatigue of dental technicians in service at the general &local hospital or the dental laboratories in the large cith of korea. The objectives of this study were 235 dental technicians who replied the questionaire which was sent by postal service out of 600 dental technicians selected by random sampling among the workers of the each dental laboratory. The instruments used in this study was the same one as developed by Industry Fatigue committee of Japan Industry Hygiene Association. This instrument was included total 30 items which is consisted of 10 perceived symptoms of fatigue in physical, mental and neuro-sensory dimension respectably. Reliability was tasted with the data of objectives, in which value of Cronbach's $\alpha$ was 9457. The following results were obtained. 1. It was revealed that the influencing demographic variables on the perceived symptoms of fatigue of dental technicians were sex, age, marital status, educational background, job carrier, working part, working hour and commuting hour. The shorted the age or job carrier, thge higher dearee of the perceived symptoms of fatigue. The longer working hours of commuting hours, the higher degree of the perceived symptoms of fatigue. The degree of the perceived symptoms of fatigue in females, unmarried person, the one with higher educational background, workers except orthodontic appliances and poorcelain contouring were higher than the other group. 2. The higher degree of the rest & leisure condition, the lower degree of the physical, mental and neuro-sensory perceived symptoms. 3. The higher degree of environmental condition of the working, the lower degree of the physical, mental and neurosensory perceived symptoms.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.339-346
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• 2013

본 연구는 근로자들의 구강건강관리행태와 결손치에 관한 영향요인을 파악하기 위하여 울산시 근로자 268명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 다음과 같은 연구 결과를 얻었다. 1. 구강건강인지도는 30대가 가장 높았고(p<0.01), 구강건강의 감수성에 대한 자기평가에서는 여성(p<0.01), 연령이 낮을수록(p<0.05), 학력이 높을수록 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<0.01). 2. 연령이 낮을수록(p<0.001), 학력이 높을수록 잇솔질 횟수가 많았고(p<0.001) 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 3. 하루 잇솔질 횟수가 많을수록 결손치의 비율이 낮았으며(p<0.01), 치아를 닦을 때 치간칫솔, 치실 등의 구강위생용품 사용하는 경우에 결손치의 비율이 낮았으며(p<0.01), 예방목적으로 치과 내원한 경우에 결손치 비율이 낮았으며 (p<0.05), 치주질환이 있는 경우에 결손치의 비율이 높아 통계적으로 유의하였다(p<0.01). 4. 구강건강인지도와 구강건강 감수성, 구강건강상태는 양의 상관관계로 나타났고, 구강건강상태와 결손치수, 잇솔질 횟수와 결손치수는 음의 상관관계를 보였다. 이에 근로자들은 구강보건교육을 통해 구강건강관리와 치아의 소중함을 배우고, 구강건강에 대한 의식을 고취시켜 근로자들의 구강건강을 증진 유지시키는 데 도움이 되는 방향으로 개선되어야 될 것이다.