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Objective: A part of happiness is health which is important. In order to keep having a good health, oral health is an essential factor. So, for keeping having an oral health, continued oral health management is required. This essay was fulfilled to study factors having effects on Continued Oral Health Management of High School Students.
Method: The subjects were 300 high school students who lived in Seoul, GyeongGi, and Incheon.
The questionnaires were carried out from September 1, 2008 to November 30, 2008. Self-administered questionnaire method based on biased sampling was used. Among 300 questionnaires, the essay used only 262 questionnaires because 38 questionnaires were answered untrustfully. With collected statistical data used by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 12.0 for window, frequency analysis and Chi-square test were fulfilled.
Result: According to the result, some students who had periodic oral examination wanted to get oral health education by 55.4% more than other students who didn't when it came to periodic oral examination related to oral health consciousness. The difference was statistically meaningful(p<0.05). Some students who had periodic oral examination had better knowledge of oral health than other students who didn't. The difference was statistically meaningful(p<0.05).
Some students who had experienced oral health education showed the level of oral health consciousness higher by 65.2% than other students who didn't when it came to experiences of oral health education related to oral health consciousness. The difference was statistically meaningful(p<0.05).
Conclusion: Some high school students who had periodical oral examination knew better knowledge of oral health than other students who didn't. The difference was statistically meaningful.(p<0.05) The more experiences high school students had, the better oral health consciousness they had. The difference was statistically meaningful(p<0.05).