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Bae, Kim, Jung, Yun, Yun, Lee, Kim, and Lee: A study on oral health knowledge and the need for oral health education among industrial workers

Abstract

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the correlation between oral health behaviors of workers by examining the oral health awareness and the need for oral health education.

Methods

After the institutional review board approval, we surveyed industrial workers in Seoul, Gwangju, Changwon, and Goksung, in Korea, from July 19 to August 29, 2016. The final questionnaires (287 in total) were assessed using the SPSS 24.0 software for Windows (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL, USA). The data were analyzed using frequency analysis, average, standard deviation, t-test, and the Pearson's correlation coefficient.

Results

Through the response of “yes” for the question, “oral health education experience,” we can see the respondents have high level of interest (P<0.001). And through the response of “yes” for the question, “Periodic oral Examination” and “regular scaling” and “oral care product use” we can see the respondents have high level of interest (P<0.001) and high importance (P<0.001), there was a statistically significant difference. On analyzing the correlations between workers, there was positive correlation oral health ‘Interest’ and ‘Importance’ (r=0.598, P<0.001). Of the 287 participants, 80.1% indicated that they did not receive any previous oral health education, while 85.4% indicated a willingness to attend oral health education programs in the future. Of the 80.1% of participants with no prior oral health education, 60.0% indicated lack of oral health education because of few opportunities to participate in such programs. They most prefer “Oral Hygiene Management” 64.8% for education contents and choose “Direct-education by inviting Expert” as the best education method 75.6%.

Conclusions

It is necessary to develop oral health education programs suitable for the industrial field characteristics for people in workplace, and to enhance and expand oral health education services in the workplace in order to maintain interest in oral health.

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Table 1.
General characteristics of subject N=287
Division Characteristic N %
Gender Male 251 87.5
Female 36 12.5
Age <40 143 49.8
≥40 144 50.2
Marital status Non-married 70 24.4
Married 217 75.6
Education level High school 94 32.8
College/University 175 61.0
Graduate school 18 6.3
Work type Production worker 119 41.5
Office work 134 46.7
Others 34 11.8
Working career (year) <5 81 28.2
5-10 68 23.7
11-20 62 21.6
>20 76 26.5
Table 2.
Interest and importance of the oral health behavior
Characteristics Interest Importance
Experience of oral health education Yes 3.76±0.53 3.65±0.59
No 3.49±0.51 3.55±0.48
P P<0.001*** 0.178
Periodic oral examination Yes 3.70±0.48 3.69±0.49
No 3.32±0.50 3.39±0.48
P P<0.001*** P<0.001***
Regular scaling Yes 3.69±0.46 3.68±0.49
No 3.34±0.53 3.42±0.48
P P<0.001*** P<0.001***
Usage oral care products Yes 3.70±0.50 3.71±0.50
No 3.43±0.51 3.47±0.48
P <0.001*** P<0.001*** P

***P<0.001, P-value by t-test.

Table 3.
Oral health interest and importance, there was positive correlation
Oral health interest Oral health importance
Oral health interest 1.000
Oral health importance 0.598*** 1.000

***P<0.001, by correlation coefficient.

Table 4.
Experience of dental examination in the workplace and necessity of dental examination in the workplace and satisfaction of dental examination N=287
Division Characteristic N (%)
Experience of dental examination in the workplace Yes 258 (89.9)
No 29 (10.1)
Necessity of dental examination in the workplace. Need 269 (93.7)
Unnecessary 18 (6.3)
Satisfaction of dental examination (N=258) Satisfaction 156 (54.4)
Dissatisfaction 102 (35.5)
Table 5.
Appearance of oral health education and willingness for participation in dental health education program and reasons why workers don’t experience in receiving oral health education N=287
Division Characteristic N (%)
Appearance of oral health education Yes 57 (19.9)
No 230 (80.1)
Willingness for participation in dental health education program I will attend it. 245 (85.4)
I will not attend it. 42 (14.6)
Reasons why workers don’t experience in receiving oral health education (N=230) There was no opportunity 174 (60.6)
I am not interested in it. 40 (13.9)
I have no time for it. 16 (5.6)
Table 6.
Preference of oral health education content
Grade Production worker
Office work
Others
Education content N (%)* Education content N (%)* Education content N (%)*
1 Oral Hygiene Management 84 (29.3) Cavity 84 (29.3) Oral Hygiene Management 24 (8.4)
2 Cavity 80 (27.9) Oral Hygiene Management 78 (27.2) Cavity 21 (7.3)
3 Dental common sense 66 (23.0) Periodontal disease 64 (22.3) Periodontal disease 21 (7.3)
4 Periodontal disease 64 (22.3) Dental common sense 63 (22.0) Dental common sense 20 (7.0)
5 Halitosis 60 (20.9) Oral Care Products 45 (15.7) Halitosis 19 (6.6)
6 Oral Care Products 52 (18.1) Halitosis 40 (13.9) Oral Care Products 15 (5.2)
7 Esthetics orthodontic 38 (13.2) Esthetics orthodontic 22 (7.7) Esthetics orthodontic 12 (4.2)
treatment (TMJ) treatment (TMJ) treatment (TMJ)
8 No smoking related 31 (10.8) No smoking related oral 16 (5.6) No smoking related 7 (2.4)
oral education education oral education

*Multiple response analysis.

Table 7.
Preference of oral health education method
Grade Production worker
Office work
Others
Education method N (%)* Education method N (%)* Education method N (%)*
1 Direct-education by 99 (34.5) Direct-education by 91 (31.7) Direct-education by 27 (9.4)
inviting Expert inviting Expert inviting Expert
2 Toothbrushing Education 66 (23.0) Toothbrushing Education 48 (16.7) Toothbrushing Education 16 (5.6)
3 Video and images 45 (15.7) Internet (periodic transfer) 33 (11.5) Video and images 13 (4.5)
4 Internet (periodic transfer) 19 (6.6) Video and images 28 (9.8) Pamphlets and booklet 9 (3.1)
5 Pamphlets and booklet 16 (5.6) Pamphlets and booklet 18 (6.3) Internet (periodic transfer) 6 (2.1)
6 Poster and message boards 17 (5.9) Poster and message boards 14 (4.9) Poster and message boards 3 (1.0)

*Multiple response analysis.

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