• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.347-356
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• 2011

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of self-assessment halitosis and to offer the basic information that establishes a strategy of effective health promotion and to enhance the quality of life. This study performed a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was filled out by the 362 adults, who lived in Incheon Metropolitan City from May to July, 2010. The data were analyzed using a Chi-square test in the SPSS version 12.0 program. The prevalence rate of self-assessment halitosis was 24.3%. Hypertension, diabetes, medication and inadequate oral hygiene practice were significantly associated with self-assessment halitosis. Other factors of self-assessment halitosis were older age and occupation. As a result, dental professionals have to investigate a systemic disease history thoroughly. And they have to educate regular checkup of oral health and to perform a continuous feedback. The self-assessment halitosis has a negative influence on mental health and social life, so dental professionals must take into consideration about the halitosis.

• Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.268-275
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• 2015

Purpose. Most of halitosis is found by people than by themselves in their life. There are some people who are suffering from oral malodor psychasthenia although they do not have halitosis which may disturb social life by sociophobia. Methods. The subjects of this survey were the dental hygienic college students in Busan city and Gyeongnam province from December 1 to December 20, 2013, we use the 281 parts except for the 19 parts of a bad faith response of 300 parts. Results. As a response to the awareness of the halitosis of college students, "the smell became sometime" was highest in 63.3%, and tooth brushing of halitosis, In according to about awareness of halitosis brushing the number of cases showed a 73.4% increase when you answered "no" in case one day the number of brushing at least three times less than a minute halitosis awareness conducted brushing (p<0.05),in case of less than 1 minute brushing time, this was a statistically significant increase halitosis awareness (p<0.05). Conclusions. This study assessment the association between halitosis awareness and oral care habits was to provide students with the basis for education and counseling halitosis in clinical.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.229-237
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine oral health literacy in a sample of Korean of 5th and 6th grade elementary school children. Methods: Data were obtained from a convenience sample of 274 $5^{th}$ and $6^{th}$ grade children from two elementary schools located in Seoul and Uijeongbu. The oral health literacy assessment tool for children of Korea (OHLC-K) takes approximately 11 minutes to complete, and consists of 20 self-report questions with a score range of 0 to 20. Item analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple linear regression were performed using SPSS 23.0 and testAn 1.0. Results: The lowest and highest percentage of correct answers were found in "Definition of periodontal disease (19.3%)" and "Definition of halitosis (92.7%)," respectively. The mean score for oral health literacy was found to be $14.95{\pm}2.83$, corresponding to a score of approximately 75% correct answers. The correlation coefficient for Korean and OHLC-K scores was high (r=.73, P<.01). In the multiple linear regression, oral health literacy was associated with grade and gender. Conclusion: The present findings revealed that a quarter of the subjects were likely to misunderstand oral health information. Oral health education is indispensable to all children and, therefore, it is necessary to pay greater attention to children who exhibit poor oral health literacy.