Correlation between oral health knowledge in industrial employees and their oral disease Prevention-Related verbal literacy Kim Jihee1, Park Hyunkyung2, Kim Hyejin2,* 1Department of Dental Hygien, Kyungnam College of Information & Technology, 45, Jurye-ro, Sasang-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea 2Department of Dental Hygien, Dongeui University, Research Institute of Clinical the Dental hygiene Dongeui University, Gaya 1-dong, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea, *Corresponding author: Hyejin Kim Associate Professor, Department of Dental Hygiene, Dongeui University, Korea. E-mail: khj1126@deu.ac.kr
Online published on 16 October, 2018. Abstract Background/Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate oral health knowledge and preventive language literacy in 220 workers who work in some industries data were collected. Methods/Statistical Analysis The collected data were analyzed, using SPSS for Windows Ver. 23.0, and the specific analysis method is as follows: Frequency analysis and descriptive statistics were conducted on the research subjects’ general characteristics and oral health behaviors, and t-test and ANOVA were conducted on prevention-related verbal understanding and oral health knowledge level according to oral health behaviors. Correlation analysis was conducted on the correlations among general characteristics, prevention-related literacy and oral health knowledge level. Findings Oral health behaviors were 62.3% who did not undergo regular checkups with regular checkups, but 63.6% were regularly scaled. 56.8% of the subjects did not have oral health education, and the understanding of dentistry and oral health education was 54.5%. 37.7% of them used terminology in the reason of difficulty in understanding dental treatment. The higher the oral health education and level of understanding of dentistry and oral health education the better the prevention literacy. Experience in regular check-ups and oral health education, and the higher the understanding of dental treatment and oral health education, the higher the knowledge of oral health. Improvements/Applications Through these results, it was noted that there were correlations among oral health behaviors, oral health knowledge level and prevention-related literacy. Top Keywords Oral Literacy, Preventive literacy, Oral health knowledge, Prevention-related Verbal Literacy, Oral health behavior. Top |