• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.505-514
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• 2022

The Purpose of this study was to identify the influencing factors of oral health state and oral health-related quality of life in the elderly with hypertension. Data was collected from 108 elderly with hypertension registered at public health centers in K city, from January-February, 2020. The collected data was analyzed by using chi-square test, t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, stepwise regression of the SPSS 22.0 program. The positive factors influencing the oral health-related quality of life are subjective health status(β=.351, p=.002), BMI(β=.271, p=.024), age(β=-.260, p=.028) and it was explained to 46.0% of the variance. In other words, the higher subjective health status, the higher body mass index, the younger age make the higher oral health-related quality of life. Based on these results, education on the importance of maintaining oral health is necessary to improve the quality of life related to oral health in the elderly with hypertension.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to identify the oral care status and periodontal disease of middle aged daibetic patients in Korea. Methods: The primitive data were taken from 238 diabetic people in the 5th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(KNHANES) in 2010 - 2012. The variables included general profiles(gender, age, occupied area, education, and smoking), oral care status(brushing time, brushing time, use of oral hygienic supplies, availability of oral hygienic supplies, oral examination, and recognition of oral health state), and diabetes management(morbidity period, treatment, education, and glycosylated hemoglobin levels). Results: Most of the subjects took gargling more than twice a day and it accounted for 73.5%. Oral hygienic supply users accounted for 24.8%, and most of them used floss brush. Oral examination was done in 19.3% of the respondents and 55.0% thought that their oral health status were very poor. The prevalence rate of the periodontal diseases was 46.6%. Female tended to have a higher rate of periodontal disease than the male. Oral hygienic supply users had lower rate of periodntal disease than those who did not use. Those who had poor subjective oral health status had higher prevalence rate of periodontal disease than those who did not. Conclusions: Periodontal disease is closely related to good oral care of middle aged diabetic patients. It is necessary to develop the program for the prevention of the periodontal disease for the diabetic patients.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.351-358
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• 2020

The aim of this study was to confirm for relationship between national exam stress and oral health status on allied health students. For this, 829 of allied health students were surveyed in four college and university located in Chungbuk and Kyungbuk. Survey tool were constituted general characteristic(4 items), national exam stress(16 items) and oral health status(34 items). The result of study, national exam stress of female were higher than male and that of department of dental hygiene, nursing, emergency medical service students were higher than other students(p<0.05). Subjective oral symptom were higher on high stress group than other groups(p<0.05). Relationship between stress and subjective oral symptom were related each other(p<0.01). Therefore it is necessary to education for manage oral symptom affected national exam stress.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.192-203
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the influencing factors of oral environment and self-care behavior on the oral health-related quality of life in the elderly with diabetes. Methods: The participants were 110 elderly patients with diabetes and follow-up care on their outpatient clinic in D and G city. Data were collected September-December 2018, using questionnaires of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) and Kim's Self-care Behavior, measuring with the tooth-pick (Premiers Dental), Halitosis Checker (HC-212M), and Moisture Checker for Mucus (MCM) for oral environments. The data were analyzed the by independent t-test, oneway ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis using an IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0 Program. Results: There was positive correlation between oral health-related quality of life and self-care behavior (r= .61, p< .001), negative correlations among halitosis (r = -.34, p< .001), gingival index (r = -.31, p= .001) and plaque index (r = -.32, p= .001). Self-care behavior (β= .46, p< .001), subjective health status (good) (β= .23, p= .002), halitosis (β= -.16, p= .030), and plaque index (β= -.15, p= .041) explained 46.0% of the variance in the oral health-related quality of life. Conclusion: It is necessary to develop nursing care for elderly patients with diabetes that can enhance the self-care behavior and subjective health status, and lower halitosis and plaque index, the factors influencing the oral health-related quality of life in elderly patients with diabetes.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.4852-4860
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• 2011

Purpose: The aim of the study was to identify the oral health status and general health status of rural elder in order to develop of oral health management program and improving quality of life. Methods : 150 elder participated in the study, lived in GoRung Gun city, visited public health center, from 1st July 2009 to 30st July 2009. Results: The majority elder had hypertension and took medicine for hypertension regularly. The subjective oral health status was bad and the majority of experience of scaling and oral examination were none. General health management was influenced by education and economic status and oral health status was influenced by age, education and economic status. Age and economic status were effect for oral examination. Conclusion: These results may contribute to a better understanding of general health status, oral health status and management of rural elder. The relation between oral management and general health management was influenced. These findings are basis to development of oral health management program including scaling and oral examination for rural elder.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.17 no.1
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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.

• Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.25-36
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of oral health behaviors and oral health status, and to analysis the association between health behavior and chronic disease and oral health status of male workers. Methods: The survey used structured self administered questionnaires from September to October in 2009 in Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do province, randomize thirty workplace which work more than 50 workers and carry out a survey targeting 30 to 50 age male laborers who work selected workplace. Total of 1,532 replies were analysed. Results: Age, education, monthly income, job was significantly associated with number of toothbrushing, scaling experience, number of missing teeth. Smoking, amount of smoking, frequency of drinking, number of tooth brushing, unmet need and subjective oral health condition, HBP and DM was significantly associated with the number of missing teeth. In logistic regression, age(above 40), monthly income and DM were significant factors on loss of teeth. Conclusion: In conclusion, it is important to provide education on the teeth-brushing and DM management to workers engaged in a small or medium sized workplace with many tooth loss and low educational status, and to recommend a regular scaling as well as to establish policy for creating conditions upon an oral health check-up and a tooth scaling and allow the maintenance of an oral health.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 2010

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine health behavior and disease of children and adolescents. Method: Data was taken from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The SPSS 12.0 program was used for statistical analysis of data collected. Results: For the past one year, 57% of study group had oral examinations, 43.9% of them were vaccinated against influenza, and 16.9% tried to control body weight. Many children and adolescents (37.7%) had diseases, and 16% were diagnosed chicken pox. Of the subjects who were over 10 years old 35.9% had low high density lipid. The difference of sickness status between children and adolescents was significant ($x^2$=8.376, P=.015). The differences between children and adolescents in subjective health status, oral examination, vaccination of influenza, subjective physical change, body weight change and weight control efforts in the past one year were significant. The differences between children and adolescents in diagnosis of sinusitis, pneumonia and low HDL were statistically significant. Conclusions: The children and adolescents have different characters in health perimeters and these factors should be considered in order to improve the health status of children and adolescents.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.58-62
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• 2020

Many studies have demonstrated the Quality of Life to oral health of the periodic dental visitors. Despite of the theoretical importance, a critical determinants of oral health concern have not yet been identified by intuition. The purpose of the present study is : (1) to analyze the relationship between clinical oral health status and subjective oral health concern(self-rated); (2) use them as basic data to efficiently operate oral health management programs specializing in prevention. The distribution of oral health concerns differed depending only on whether or not oral health care was performed periodically (P<0.05, Table 1).

• Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.1325-1336
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• 2019

Purpose. Infant oral health care forms the basis of lifelong health, and the role of child care teachers in contributing to the quality level in the formation of correct habits at this time throughout the infant's health care and education is very important. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the perceived oral health status of nursery teachers and the necessity of oral health education, and to emphasize that the oral health of teachers is closely related to the oral health of infants and young children. Methods. This study was conducted from May to June 2018 by surveying private nursery teachers in some parts of Gyeongsangbuk-do province by using the self-entry method. The research tools consisted of the general characteristics of subjects, subjective oral health status, oral health practice, oral health education awareness, and oral health education needs. We used shceffe as a post hoc test to compare the differences between groups after frequency analysis, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA analysis. The linear regression analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between perceived oral health status, oral health practice and awareness, and oral health education needs. The statistical level was .05. Results. According to the results of this study, the oral health related practice according to the demographic characteristics is at the final education level, and the oral health related awareness is age, marital status and oral health education needs. The results showed statistically significant differences in final educational attainment and cohabitation. Regarding the relationship between perceived oral health status, oral health related practice and awareness, and oral health education needs There were significant differences in oral health practice(β =.329) and oral health education needs (β =.158). Conclusion. Based on the above results, the child care facility can emphasize the importance of the role of the child care teacher in the oral health care of infants, and the basic data for the establishment of the child care management program in the future by reflecting the role of the teacher in the development of the child care management program of the child care facility. I want to use as.