일부 보건계열 대학생들의 구강건강관련 삶의 질에 영향을 미치는 요인

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible impactfactors(oral health level, oral health promotion behaviors, health level, health behaviors,and mental health) on oral health related quality of life using OHIP-14 of health alliedcollege students. Methods: A total of 363 self-administered questionnaires were collected fromuniversity student in Seoul. To investigate the casual relationship between each variablepresented in the research model, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA(Scheffe’stest), man-whitney, kruskal wallis, multiple regression analysis were carried out by usingSPSS ver. 21.0. Results: The study shows that the students reported mean score of OHIP-14(8.32±7.51), of which physical pain was the highest score(1.88±1.45) and social disabilitywas the lowest score(0.69± 1.13). Multiple regression revealed that the score of OHIP-14was shown to be significantly higher for the following people: who were get moreself-reported symptom of periodontitis, halitosis, negative self-perceived general healthand oral health, no received dental scaling treatment, and participants who had noexperience awareness of distress in two weeks. The explanatory power was 18.2%. Themost powerful factor regarding to self-reported symptom of periodontitis was shown to be negatively relations oral health-related quality of life. Conclusions: In order to enhance the students’ life quality, there need to be considered for a comprehensive oral health-related quality of life program for the students through health education policy.