• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.217-226
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to find out differences in oral health status, defined as their oral health and oral health quality of life among the elderly depending on their income and education levels. Methods: This study used 922 senior citizens over 65 from the data (2015) of the 6th National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHNS). The regression analysis was adopted to identify factors affecting their oral health status which has effect on their oral health quality of life. The statistical package SPSS 21.0 was employed. Frequency analysis, chi-squared analysis and regression analysis were used, and the significance level or Cronbach's alpha value was 0.05. Results: Depending on income levels, there were differences in their oral health status as to whether they use oral hygiene products, take dental examinations, join private health-insurances, and delay dental treatments or not. And educational levels also made significant differences in their oral health status as to whether they smoke, drink alcohol, how many times they brush teeth a day, whether they use oral hygiene products, take dental treatments, and join private health-insurances. Regression analysis on the relationship between their oral health status and the oral health quality of life showed that there were significant differences depending on whether they take dental treatments, delay dental medical treatments, smoke, take oral examinations, how many times they brush teeth a day, and whether they use oral hygiene products, or join private health-insurances. Conclusions: The study shows that a comprehensive plan is needed to raise attention on proper oral health-care and ultimately to improve the quality of life by considering the daily number of tooth brushing, oral hygiene product use, regular dental treatments, and other medical uses.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.107-118
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the general characteristics, oral health risk factors, and denture management behaviors of the elderly and improve their oral health and life satisfaction. Methods: This study was conducted on 386 individuals from elderly welfare facilities in Gyeonggi-do selected by convenience sampling. Results: The female participants were more satisfied with their family relationship than the male participants. Among the risk factors for oral health, life satisfaction was higher among the participants who had no psychological inconvenience and bad breath symptoms. Among the factors for denture management behavior, the participants who did not receive dental checkups regularly expressed greater life satisfaction than those who had not received denture care education. Conclusions: The practical and theoretical implications for elderly welfare programs and oral health management education for denture-wearing elderly were discussed.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.425-430
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• 2010

본 연구는 노인요양시설 종사자들을 대상으로 구강보건지식 및 인지도를 파악하기 위하여 경기도지역 노인시설 종사자 233명을 대상으로 자기기입식 설문지를 작성하게 하여 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 조사대상자의 구강보건지식의 문항별 응답은 '칫솔질할 때 혀도 닦아야 한다'가 97%로 가장 높은 정답률을 보였다. 2. 구강보건행태에 따른 구강보건지식정도에서는 정기적 치과방문이 6개월마다 방문한다고 응답한 대상자가 높게 나타나 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<.05). 일일 칫솔질 횟수에서는 4회 이상 칫솔질을 한다고 응답한 대상자가 구강보건지식이 높게 나타났으며 통계적으로도 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<.05). 3. 구강보건 지식정도는 전체 평균은 13점 만점에 9.84점으로 전체적으로 구강보건지식수준이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 하위영역에서는 일반적인 구강보건지식이 4점 만점 중 3.69점, 노인성 구강보건지식인 6점 만점에 4.28점, 의치구강보건지식이 3점 만점에 1.86점으로서 일반적인 구강보건 지식이 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 4. 노인구강보건관심에 따른 구강보건지식정도는 관심이 많다고 응답한 대상자가 구강보건지식정도가 높게 나타나 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<.001). 5. 조사대상자의 노인구강보건관리 및 교육요구도 에서는 교육이 필요하다는 응답이 83.7%, 불필요하다는 응답이 16.3%로 나타났다. 6. 노인구강보건관리 및 교육은 치과위생사가 하는 것이 적합하다라는 응답이 57.9%로 가장 많았고 구강보건지식정도도 치과위생사가 되어야 한다고 인지한 대상자가 높은 것으로 나타났고 통계적으로도 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<.05)(Table 7). 이상의 결론을 정리해 보면 시설종사자들에게 노인구강 보건관리에 대한 일반적인 구강보건지식을 교육시킬 필요가 있으며 더불어 보다 전문적이고 체계적인 노인구강 건강관리서비스를 제공하기 위하여 치과위생사를 노인시설에 적극적으로 배치시키는 일들에 대한 적극적인 검토가 필요하다고 생각한다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2017

Objectives: I examined the health and oral health status of elderly people living alone compared to elderly people living with their families by using data (2014) from the 6th Two-Year Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Methods: Among 1,454 health survey respondents aged 65 years and over who participated in the 6th Two-Year Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted in 2014, 311 were elderly people living alone and 1,143 were elderly people living with their families. Results: In terms of socio-demographic characteristics, the percentage of elderly people living alone was high especially in women and when the subjects' age, education level, and income level were low. In terms of oral health status, the percentage of elderly people living alone was high when elderly people thought that their subjectively viewed health was poor and the frequency of drinking and exercise was low. In terms of oral health status, the percentage of elderly people living alone was high among elderly people who did not have good oral health in their subjective view and did not get oral examinations for a year and had a lot of difficulty chewing. Conclusions: Family support or additional social support for elderly people who live alone should be considered to promote the healthy lives of elderly people.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.628-645
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• 2022

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to evaluate the nutritional status and dietary habits of the elderly using the nutrition quotient for the elderly (NQ-E) and to analyze the differences in the NQ-E according to their levels of oral health. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The survey was administered to 123 elderly people receiving congregate meal services in Seoul. The questionnaire comprised 3 domains: oral health status, general characteristics, and the NQ-E for the elderly. RESULTS: The respondents were divided into 2 groups based on the average score of their levels of oral health (the group with high oral health scores: 4.42 points and the group with low oral health scores: 2.89 points). As a result of evaluating nutritional status using the NQ-E, it was found that the average NQ-E score was 58.7 points, with 46.0 points in the balance domain, 47.0 points in the diversity domain, 72.9 points in the moderation domain, and 61.8 points in the dietary behavior domain. The NQ-E score (62.3 points) of the group with high oral health scores is significantly higher than the NQ-E score (54.7 points) of the group with low oral health scores (P < 0.001). Concerning the NQ domain scores, the elderly with good oral health status had "favorable" results in terms of balance and dietary behavior, and the elderly with poor oral health status had "favorable" results only in terms of balance. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, several dietary areas needed improvement in general. Those with poor oral health conditions urgently needed to improve related factors to minimize the risk of increasing imbalanced nutrition and comorbidities due to insufficient nutrition and undesirable eating habits.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.398-404
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• 2017

The present study aimed to examine the influence of mental health factors on oral health factors using data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). A total of 1,548 elderly individuals aged over 65 years who completed the screening and health questionnaire were selected as the final study participants. The psychological health factors related to perceived oral health status were depression and stress when the gender was controlled, and in terms of gender, both elderly male and female individuals were stressed and depressed. These results suggested that the psychological health of elderly individuals negatively affects not only perceived oral health but also the quality of life. In addition, the psychological health of the elderly individuals should be systematically managed along with oral health care and overall health care and lifestyle. If a comprehensive health management system is available for low-income groups or an elderly person living alone, it should positively affect and improve the quality of life of elderly individuals.

• 한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.55-68
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• 2017

Objectives: Republic of Korea has entered an aged society, recently. As chronic diseases increase, elderly inpatients has been increasing and they have used caregivers for convenience. Accordingly, this study aims to investigate the oral health knowledge and attitude of caregivers on oral health management of elderly inpatients, which would affect the general health and quality of life. Methods: A survey questionnaire was distributed to the caregiver(n=165), at a neurosurgery or orthopedic hospital inpatient ward in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do from April 1 to 14, 2017. We analyzed the data with descriptive statistics analysis, chi-squared analysis and logistic regression analysis by using SPSS 23.0. Results: The response rate to the questionnaire was 92%. Oral health management provided by caregivers to inpatients in the elderly was prevention of oral diseases(92.8%), tooth brushing (89.5%), use of oral care products(68.4%), denture cleaning(90.8%) and oral cleaning(90.8%). Frequency analysis of oral health management in accordance with the educational needs of caregivers was all confirmed statistically significant(p<0.05). In the logistics regression model, oral health knowledge was significantly associated with low oral cleaning(OR=1.58) and oral health attitude was significantly associated with high denture cleaning(OR=1.29) and oral cleaning(OR=1.28) after adjustment for other covariates including gender, age, certification, education level, ward, working years. Conclusions: It is necessary to expand the scope and improve the quality of education that can change the attitudes and behaviors of the caregivers on the oral health management of the elderly on the basis of the current oral health education.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2013

Purpose: The recent proliferation of the aging population, oral health care is closely related to the mental health of the elderly is very important being recognized. Provide basic data for improving the quality of life for the elderly, to determine whether the oral health of the elderly whether oral self-perception of health and any related wish. Methods: Surveys to May 20 from April 15, 2011, subjects were elderly and living in Daejeon and Chungnam 277 people were examined. All the statistics using SPSS 18.0 for the determination of statistical significance, and the significance level was 0.05. Results: 1. Recognized, the most common oral health, self-aware bad the state (46.2%) there was no significant difference in the general characteristics according to self-Oral health status, remaining natural dimensions or the intra-oral prosthetic, there was no significant difference. More teeth, residual phase, in accordance with intra-oral prosthetic mandibular Not all dentures, partial dentures, full dentures net self-perception of oral health status better recognized. 2. According to the type of partial dentures, oral health status self-phase, mixed mandibular removable, fixed, fixed, removable partial dentures in order to recognize that good oral health, self-aware state, showed between them, there was no significant difference. 3. Of variable dimension that has nothing to do with the remaining natural maxillary and mandibular prosthetic maxillary prosthetic mandibular partial dentures, age income, a positive correlation was negatively correlated. The case of the mandible, the mandibular prosthetic mandibular partial denture, maxillary prosthetic, the amount of income were correlated. 4. Intra-oral Prosthetics correlation variables in the maxillary, mandibular prosthesis, the positive correlation between income, age was negatively correlated, if the income of the mandible. Maxillary partial denture has nothing to do with the variable portion of the mandibular denture, age was a negative correlation was found. Conclusion: Satisfaction and how now it is important simply to live as long, but you need to pay attention to the quality of life, sometimes with an aging population and the increase of soybean To buy the loss of teeth causes the typical health problems of the elderly. Elderly people of any relevant oral health and the oral cavity by the state to determine whether to provide the basic data for oral health education was more residual value, intra-oral prosthetics there is no more self-aware, the oral health status is good to recognize that appeared. Strengthen the oral health education to improve the quality of life of the elderly, and is thought to be necessary to increase the number of residual.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2022

Background: The elderly have, a higher disease morbidity than other age groups due to a decrease in resistance to the disease and have complex diseases, so care should be taken. Accordingly, it is considered important to provide information for improving the health of the elderly. Health information plays an important role in individual health promotion and education, so the degree of exposure to information about oral health of the elderly is expected to have a significant impact on understanding and acquiring information on oral content videos on the importance, prevention, and management of oral health of the elderly in the future. Methods: This study analyzed video content related to oral diseases of the elderly in a total of 150 videos uploaded on YouTube from January 1, 2012 to May 13, 2021, using a total of three books of dental hygiene for the elderly. Results: Forty-nine broadcasters accounted for the most of this information. Among the information providers, there were two dental hygienists. They accounted for 1.3% of all the information providers. The highest number of dental hygienists who broadcasted information was 42 in 2019. The average number of views was 37,303 periodontal diseases, the highest. Among the videos, dry mouth was the most common with 34 oral diseases. Conclusion: The number of images for each disease varies, so it seems that information should be provided in various ways. Dental hygienists should widely improve oral health knowledge by providing various dental hygiene management images for each oral disease to improve the oral health of the general public. In addition, based on the information of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the development and provision of content should be actively carried out so that people can obtain the information they desire.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.347-357
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• 2020

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between frailty and oral health among some elderly community residents. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 240 elderly in the Gwangju-Jeonnam area from October 1, 2019, to November 30, 2019, based on convenience sampling. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects, frailty level (Kihon checklist), and Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index. Results: There were 66 (27.5%) frail elderly, and the GOHAI group with a score less than 45 constituted 187 (77.9%), which was higher than the group with a score of 45 or higher. The distribution of the frail elderly was indicated to be higher in the people with older age (p<0.05), lower educational level (p<0.01), current economic inactivity (p<0.05), living alone (p<0.01), more chronic diseases (p<0.01), and GOHAI score below 45 (p<0.01). Compared to those with a good oral health-related quality of life, those with a poor quality of life showed a 3.03 times higher risk of frailty (95% CI=1.291-7.107)(p<0.05). Conclusions: By recognizing the need for oral health care of the elderly through these results and by identifying the relationship between frailty and oral health, it is possible to consider oral health as a predictor of frailty.