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This study has as its subjects 207students with graduation ahead (3rd and 4th grade) of Dental Hygienics at six schools located in the capital area and examined the degree of consciousness about blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before.
The results are as shown below: 1. In the items of wearing gloves in general, exchanging gloves for their damage, and hand washing before and after the practice, etc., the most frequent answer was ‘I practice it all the time’; however, in the items of exchanging polluted masks, wearing an eye shield, and wearing a disposable gown, etc., the response of ‘I don’t practice it‘ was frequent.
2. Regarding knowledge on the tools for infected patients, it was very high as 207 (100%). And for knowledge on the infection route of Hepatitis A, the percentage of correct answers was the lowest as 143 (69.1%).
3. In the experience of training for blood-related individual infection management, the use of gargle is learnt the least. And training for discarding tools was dealt with the most.
4. Consciousness of danger of disease resulted from injection needles was high; however, consciousness of danger of work problems resulted from injection needles, mental pain, or financial loss was low.
5. According to the result of verifying if they wear protective devices for blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was statistically significant difference in the items of exchanging gloves (p<.05), exchanging masks (p<.05), wearing an eye shield (p<.05), and exchanging aprons (p<.05), etc.
6. According to the result of verifying their experience of training for blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was statistically significant difference in the items of training for using tools (p<.05) and consciousness of infection (p<.05).
7. According to the result of verifying the degree of consciousness of danger regarding blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was statistically significant difference only in the item of consciousness of danger of death from disease (p<.05).
8. According to the result of verifying the difference of knowledge on blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was no significant difference in the knowledge of Hepatitis B-type infection route, but there was statistically significant difference in the knowledge of Hepatitis A-type infection route (p<.05).