일부 지역 대학생들의 치과위생사에 대한 인식도 조사
A Study of University Students’ Perception on Dental Hygienists
이보영, 이지윤, 임보미, 구효진,
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이보영 ( Lee Bo-Yeong ) - 마산대학교 치위생과
이지윤 ( Lee Ji-Yoon ) - 마산대학교 치위생과
임보미 ( Im Bo-Mi ) - 마산대학교 치위생과
구효진 ( Goo Hyo-Jin ) - 마산대학교 치위생과
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Abstract
This study aims to figure out dental hygienists’ current social status by investigating college students’ perception on them, improve their job reputation and help them grow into excellent dental hygienists.
In addition, it targets to provide basic data to set a direction for establishment of correct perception on dental hygienists’ title and their tasks set a direction and improvement of their reputation. For this, a self-assessment questionnaire was conducted against 428 university students in Busan and Changwon:
1. When asked if they know ‘dental hygienists,’ 78.5% said ‘YES.’ When asked how they got to know of them, ‘from one of my acquaintances (48.2.%)’ was the highest, followed ‘one of my family members or relatives is a dental hygienist (20.2%),’ ‘I received treatment from the dental hygienist (18.5%),’ ‘from the mass media (10.7%)’ and ‘through a book (2.4%).’
2. When asked what is a dental hygienist’s task, ‘assistant 42.5%,’ followed ‘taking an oral picture and scaling 25%,’ and ‘prevention stomatosis 16.8%.’
3. When asked what is a dental hygienist’s image, ‘neat and clean 62.1%’ was the highest, and when asked what kind of job is a dental hygienist’s, ‘specialized job 52.8%’ was the highest.
4. In terms of respondents’ perception on dental hygienists by gender, significant difference was observed (p<0.05) with 70.9% of male and 88.0% of female. When asked what a dental hygienist is called, 37.1% said ‘nurse’ while 27.4% responded ‘dental hygienist’ in men. In women, 36.6% said ‘dental hygienist,’ and 27.2% responded ‘nurse.’ In other words, significant difference was observed (p<0.05).
Based on the results of the study above, it is important to provide reasonable obligations to dental hygienists and fairly treat them in order to improve their social status. To establish a correct perception on dental hygienists, in addition, it is necessary to promote multiple advertisements through mass media.
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University student; Perception; Dental Hygienist
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