Study on Korean Adults' Subjective Oral Status & Dental Health Behavior according to Occupation
우희선, 김선숙,
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우희선 ( Woo Hee-Sun ) - Suwon Women’s College Department of Dental Hygiene
김선숙 ( Kim Sun-Sook ) - Suwon Women’s College Department of Dental Hygiene
KMID : 1157520130090010023
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study is to offer basic knowledge in developing more specific policies for dental health sector based on the analysis of subjective oral status and dental health behavior of Korean adults according to their occupation by referring to the Statistics Korea's Korea Standard Classification of Occupations (KSCO).
Methods: Data on dental health behaviors of adults aged between 18 and 93 were extracted from the 2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the survey examined a total of 7,280 people (3,096 males, 4,184 females). For statistical analysis, this thesis adopted SPSS (12.0) to run Perason's chi-square test and Frequency analysis with the level of statistical significance being 0.05.
Results: In the subjective oral status, the 54.4 elementary occupations, 53.1% skilled agricultural and fishery workers showed bad state (p＜0.001). The craft, plant and machine operators and assemblers showed smoking as 48.7%, past smoking as 27.4% (p＜0.001). About brushing before sleep, 79.1% skilled agricultural and fishery workers answered that they don't do it (p＜0.001). The skilled agricultural and fishery workers showed uncomfortable mastication as 52.3%, uncomfortable pronunciation as 21.2%, The clerks showed not uncomfortable mastication as 68.0%, not uncomfortable pronunciation as 92.3% (p＜0.001).
Conclusion: We need to explore how to make dental institutions more accessible by many, how to facilitate dental health education programs centering more on preventive measures than follow-up treatments and how to better organize dental care system suitable for each occupation.
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oral health behavior; occupation; Korean adult
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