일부 농어촌 지역 대학생의 칫솔질 인식에 대한 조사연구

Abstract

This study was conducted to motivate college students living in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, some rural areas to raise their own awareness of oral health care and to motivate themselves for oral care, to plan oral hygiene management education for college students in the future by cultivating the right knowledge about brushing and to provide basic data to prepare a direction for developing an appropriate oral health education program for university students. During the study period a self-written questionnaire was conducted from May to July 2025, and the survey method was distributed and collected using a collective survey distribution survey and mail delivery and 335 copies were finally analyzed. For data analysis a frequency analysis was conducted for general characteristics and toothbrushing-related characteristics using SPSS/Win 25.0 and x2-tests were conducted for the number of times to brush method to brush time to brush and important factors for maintaining oral health according to general characteristics. In terms of gender, women were more than men and the major was more in the health field and the distribution by grade was in the order of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades. The number of toothbrushes per day was three times the method of brushing was a lot of rotation, and the time to brush was three to four minutes. Advertisements were the most considered factors when choosing a toothbrush and toothpaste, and the important factors when brushing the toothbrush were high in the correct way. In terms of the number of toothbrushes men were twice high women were three times high and first, second, third, and fourth graders were three times high depending on the grade and depending on the allowance, three times were high for those under 200,000 won, 210,000 won to 300,000 won and 300,000 won or more. In terms of brushing methods, men had high horse-riding methods, women had high implementation in their own way and depending on the grade, the first grade was implemented according to my method and the second, third and fourth graders had high horse-riding methods. In terms of the important factors for maintaining oral health men and women had high toothbrushes, and health and non-health departments had high toothbrushes in their majors. Among the ways to prevent oral diseases, brushing is the simplest and most effective way to practice it, and it is a key oral health education project. In terms of cost, it can be seen as very economical, and the correct brushing behavior of college students will act as a very important factor in preventing oral diseases. It is considered that appropriate oral health education programs should be developed and distributed according to the gender and major of college students, and through oral health education, they should contribute to the improvement of oral health by forming correct oral health knowledge and attitudes and behaviors for brushing through oral health education.