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The purpose of this study is to investigate the needs and contribution of oral health education for child care teachers utilizing this as database in order to implement a more efficient children's oral health education.
The subjects for this study were 313 child care teachers working in child care centers in the Chungnam region from July 12, 2011 to August 26, 2011. The teachers completed the questionnaires with revised questions using the self-reported response method by visiting the child care centers in person and after randomly selection of 10 currently employed child care teachers that participated in the preliminary survey. General characteristics and children's health education importance, needs, and contribution questions were analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 from the 5-Point Likert Scale.
1. The percentage of general characteristics of subjects in their thirties was the highest with 45.6%, 5 years or less of work experience was 50.5%, in terms of level of education the percentage of junior college graduates was 61.5%, in terms of certificates Level 1 child care teachers had the highest percentage with 51.8%, child care centers had the highest percentage of 75.1% for working period conditions, and 38.5% were in charge of 10 children or less.
2. Results showed that the first priority for children's health education was general safety education with 38.5%, 2nd and 3rd priorities were hygiene education with 27.2% and 22.3%.
3. Oral health in accordance with the general characteristics required education contribution age 30, careers for more than six years, the Graduate School of Education graduated and working agency form child care centers, your child was higher in both the number of 20 or more.
4. Toothbrushing methods were the highest with 3.45 in the 5 years or less of work experience group and 3.54 in the 6 years or more of work experience group for the contribution of oral health education according to work experience with statistically significant difference (p<0.05).
5. Toothbrushing method was the highest with 4.12 in both the 5 years or less of work experience group and the 6 years or more of work experience group for the needs of oral health education according to work experience with statistically significant difference (p<0.05)
There is a need for a systematic and accurate oral health education from oral health education experts to achieve diverse oral health education besides toothbrushing methods in terms of contribution and needs of child care teachers for children. In terms of oral health education, constant oral health care education needs to be provided for child care teachers so they can contribute to the oral health of children in various ways rather than remaining at the attitude changes of child care teachers regarding oral health.