60세이상 일부노인의 구강진료불안요인분석

Abstract

keyword: dental anxiety, elderly adults

Objects: Despite the technological advances in mordern dentistry, dental anxiety and fear has remained some people to their treated before. In an aging society, as the elderly of dental care need is increased, the aim of this study is required to awareness of the elderly related dental anxiety.

Material and method: 308 home lived old group was randomly selected in Gwang-Ju city. This study has used to questionnaire within oral health impact profiles(OHIP). 34 items were score on a 5-point scale. 5 categories were devided to analysis of experienced dental treatment, subjective oral health status, dental anxiety scale(DAS), and OHIP.

results: 1. The dental anxiety scale of experienced dental treatment showed 62.9% in avoid dental care and 50.4% in negative experience. 2. The dental anxiety scale of subjective oral health status showed 40.1% in chewing problem, 40.6% in oral pain and 44.4% in the aware of subjective oral condition. 3. The score of oral health impact profile is 6 point in case of dental anxiety highly.

Conclusion: From this results, this study suggests that oral health education program of elderly of experienced dental anxiety should be need to develop systemically.