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연구 배경 및 목적: 치매 유병률은 매년 증가하는 추세를 보이고 있으며, 치매와 구강 건강의 관련성에 대한 선 행 연구들이 계속해서 진행되고 있다. 임상 치과위생사는 적절한 치과 의료서비스 제공을 위한 전문적인 역량이 필요하며, 치과위생사의 지식 수준을 객관적으로 측정할 수 있는 도구 개발이 필요하다. 이에 임상 치과위생사의 치매 환자 치과 진료 시 고려사항에 대한 지식 측정도구를 개발하고자 하였다. 연구 방법: 문헌 고찰을 바탕으로 예비문항을 구성하여 전문가 검증, 예비조사, 본조사를 진행하였다. 본조사는 임상 경력이 1년 이상인 치과위생사 220명을 대상으로 설문조사를 시행하였다. 수집된 자료를 바탕으로 타당도 분석, 신뢰도 분석을 진행하여 최종 문항을 선정하였고, 선정된 문항별 정답률을 확인하였다. 연구 결과: 수집된 자료 분석 결과, 총 40개의 예비문항 중 18문항이 삭제되어 총 6개 요인, 22문항이 선정되었으 며, 선정된 문항의 Cronbach’s α값은 0.791로 나타났다. 하위 항목 별 문항 수는 ‘치매 환자의 치과 진료 시 주의 사항’ 5문항, 치매 환자의 약물 부작용‘ 4문항, 치매 환자의 구강 관리 방법’ 4문항, ‘치매 환자와의 의사소통’ 4문 항, ‘치매 환자의 심리적 반응’ 3문항, ‘치매 환자 안내’ 2문항으로 구성하였다. 정답률이 가장 높았던 문항은 ‘치매 환자 안내’ 항목의 2번 문항이 98.6%, 정답률이 가장 낮았던 문항은 ‘치매 환자의 심리적 반응’ 항목의 2번 문항이 5.9%로 나타났다. 결론: 본 연구를 통해 타당도와 신뢰도가 검증된 도구는 향후 임상 치과위생사와 치매 관련 후속 연구의 기반으로 활용할 수 있으며, 보수교육, 교육 프로그램 개발, 의료기관 내 업무 지침 개발의 기초 자료로 기여하고자 한다.

Background and Objectives: The prevalence of dementia is steadily increasing each year, and preceding studies continue to explore the association between dementia and oral health. Dental hygienists require specialized competencies to provide appropriate dental healthcare services, necessitating the development of a tool for the objective measurement of their knowledge levels. This study aimed to develop a knowledge assessment tool for dental hygienists concerning considerations for dental care for patients with dementia. Methods: The study constructed preliminary items based on a literature review and then conducted expert validation, a pilot survey, and the main survey. The main survey was conducted among 220 dental hygienists. Validity and reliability analyses were conducted with the collected data to select the final items, and the correctness rates for each selected item were verified. Results: As a result of the analysis of the collected data, 18 items were eliminated out of a total of 40 preliminary items, leaving a total of 6 factors and 22 items. The Cronbach’s α value for the selected items was 0.791. The six factors are as follows: ‘Considerations during dental treatment for dementia patients’ (5 items), ‘medication side effects in dementia patients’ (4 items), ‘oral care methods for dementia patients’ (4 items), ‘communication with dementia patients’ (4 items), ‘psychological reactions of dementia patients’ (3 items), and ‘guidance for dementia patients’ (2 items). The item with the highest correctness rate was item 2 of the ‘guidance for dementia patients’ category at 98.6%, while the item with the lowest correctness rate was item 2 of the ‘psychological reactions of dementia patients’ category at 5.9%. Conclusion: This study validated the reliability and validity of the knowledge assessment tool, which lays the foundation for future research on dental hygienists and dementia. It contributes essential data for ongoing education, development of educational programs, and establishing operational guidelines in healthcare institutions.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the education status, knowledge, and perception of oral care among senior nursing students from Republic of Korea who completed all four curricular courses of Introduction to Nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Adult Nursing and Gerontological Nursing in order to provide basic data for effective oral care of inpatients. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted for 137 senior nursing students in the Seoul and Gangwon regions who were selected by convenience sampling. The questionnaire consisted of questions about the perception of oral care. A frequency analysis was conducted to analyze education status, perception, and general characteristics of participants. In addition, independent t-test and one-way analysis of variance were conducted to assess differences in the knowledge level according to the characteristics of the students. A p-value less than 0.05 was statistically significant. Results: The study results revealed that 63.5% of the respondents received education on oral care, with 67.8% of them receiving the education during their regular curriculum. Of the responders who said they received education, 41.4% said that education was not enough. Furthermore, the majority of respondents (56.9%) considered dental hygienists to be most suitable for the administration of oral care for inpatients. Conclusion: This study revealed nursing students’ positive perceptions of the importance of oral care and dental hygienists’performance of oral care for inpatients. Consideration should be given to healthcare workers in various professions for improving oral health in inpatients, as well as for further study of oral care in the curriculum.

본 연구는 2015 개정 교육과정으로 과정 중심 평가가 대두됨에 따라 교실에서 과 정 중심 평가의 정착 및 운영을 위한 방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 그 방안으로 자기 평가를 통한 과정 중심 평가를 제안하였고 이를 적용한 수업이 초등학교 5학년 학 생들의 수학 학업 성취도와 정의적 영역에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 연구를 위해 동질성이 검증된 5학년 2개 학급을 선정한 후 실험집단에는 자기 평가를 통한 과 정 중심 평가를, 비교집단에는 교사 주도의 과정 중심 평가를 적용한 수업을 실시 하였다. 그 결과, 자기 평가를 통한 과정 중심 평가를 적용한 수업은 초등학교 5학 년 학생들의 수학 학업 성취도를 유의미하게 향상시켰다. 실험집단의 정의적 영역 은 유의미하게 변화하지는 않았으나 학생들의 소감문과 면담 자료를 분석한 결과 본 수업을 통해 수학에 대한 흥미와 자신감을 더 갖게 되었음을 알 수 있었다.

The purpose of this study is to find ways to establish and operate Process-focused Assessment in the classroom as the 2015 revised curriculum has emerged. As a way of doing so, we proposed a Process-focused Assessment through self-assessment and looked at the impact of the applied classes on the mathematical academic performance and affective domain of fifth-grade elementary school students. After selecting two classes of fifth grade with proven homogeneity for research, the experimental group applied Process-focused Assessment through self-assessment and the teacher-led Process-focused Assessment to the comparative group. As a result, it was confirmed that the classes applying Process-focused Assessment through self-assessment significantly improved the math and academic performance of fifth-grade elementary school students. The affective domain of the experimental group did not change significantly, but the analysis of the students' comments and interview data showed that they had more interest and confidence in mathematics.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between perceived oral health and oral health status, oral health symptoms in elementary school students. Methods: Oral examination and oral hygiene survey were performed on 446 students in 5th grade from 4 elementary schools in Wonju, Gangwon province. Oral examinationassessed decayed teeth, filled teeth, missing teeth from decay. Then, oral hygiene status was evaluated by O'Leary index and self-reported questionnaires were surveyed. We analysed the collected data using SPSS program ver. 20.0, significant difference level was p<0.05. Results: 38.4% of the subjects rated their oral health as poor, 61.6% as good, femalestudents was worried about their appearances than male students. Their decayed teeth was 1.01, missed teeth was 0.01, filled teeth was 1.75, O'Leary index was 64.49, oral hygiene status of them was poor. Perceived oral health was associated to decayed teeth, DMFT, oral health symptoms except tooth fracture and pain of mucosa (p<0.05). However, there is no correlation between perceived oral health and oral hygiene status (p>0.05) Conclusion: Self-rated oral health status of the elementary school students wasrelated to decayed teeth and oral health symptoms, but it was not related to oral hygiene status. Therefore it was needed to improve the oral hygiene status in elementarystudents by devise effective way to motivate them.

본 연구는 치위생학과 학생들의 취업준비행동에 영향을 미치는 요인을 알아보기 위하여 진행되었다. 일반적 특성에 따른 진로결정자기효능감과 진로정체감을 분석 한 후 취업준비행동과의 관련성을 검토하였다. 국내 4년제 대 학 3개교에 재학 중인 치위생학과 3, 4학년 243명을 대상으로 설문조사를 시행하여, 빈도분석과 다중회귀분석을 시 행하였다. 연령이 증가할수록 취업준비행동을 많이 하였으며, 학년에 따른 차이도 일부 항목에서 존재하였다. 진로결 정자기효능감은 남성, 연령증가, 고 학점 집단, 희망 월 급여가 가장 낮은 집단에서 높은 것으로 나타났다. 진로정체 감은 학교와 성적, 전공만족도와 관련이 있었는데 전공에 불만족하는 학생의 진로정체감이 가장 높았다. 회귀분석 결 과 진로정체감은 취업준비행동에 영향을 미치는 요인이었으나 회귀식의 설명력은 약 20%로 낮은 편이었다. 치위생 학과 학생들이 취업준비행동을 독려할 수 있는 다양한 사회진출로의 모색이 필요하며, 진로정체감과 전공만족도가 긍정적 관련성을 보일 수 있도록 하기 위한 대학교육의 고민이 필요하다.

The purpose of this study was to analyze employment preparation behavior, career decision making self efficacy, and career identity by the subjects' general characteristics, and determine the relationship among them. The survey was conducted to 243 dental hygiene students in college located in South Korea, analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, and multiple linear regression. There was significant difference of employment preparation behaviors between male and female. Career decision making self efficacy was higher with increasing age and their credit, but showed the opposite trend in expected salary. Career identity was related to credit and the satisfaction in major, students dissatisfied with major recorded higher sense of career identity. The result of multiple linear regression showed the career decision making self efficacy affect the employment preparation behavior, the explanatory power was about 20%. It will be necessary encourage the students social advance in many different fields, research to improve the relationship between career decision making self efficacy and satisfaction in major of dental hygiene students.

Objectives: This study is designed to evaluate the influential factors of career decision-making self-efficacy and career identity by health science college students on their job preparation beaviors. Methods: The total 714 questionnaires were distributed to juniors and seniors of health science college, and the result was statistically analyzed through IBM SPSS statistics 20.0. Results: 1. There was no significant difference of job preparation behavior between male students and female students, and while seniors showed highly active job preparation behaviors, those who had high satisfaction level toward their major studies, high academic achievement, and outgoing personality had highly active job preparation behaviors. 2. Students with high satisfaction level toward their major studies, high academic achievement, outgoing personality, and high expected salaries showed high career decision-making self-efficacy level. 3. Students with high satisfaction level toward their major studies, high academic achievement and highly outgoing personality showed high level of career identity. 4. Subsidiary factors of career decision-making self- efficacy were collection of job information, goal setting, planning, and self-assessment, and all of them showed correlation with job preparation behaviors. 5. Among subsidiary factors of career decision-making self-efficacy, “self-understanding” and understanding of job information showed correlation with job preparation behaviors. Conclusion: For improvement on career decision-making self-efficacy and career identity of health science college students, individual support, psychological support, educational support and other supports regarding job employment to provide wide paths and methods for job preparation behaviors are essential, and through various job employment education program and graded counseling, job preparation behaviors shall be promoted as a great strategy.

Hiratsuka Raicho, the well-known new woman in modern Japan, constructed maternalism through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ in the Daisho period. Since then her maternalism asserting the maternity of nation-state was practiced to declare progressive women's movement in 1920s. But her maternalism was altered to set up a cooperation in the discourse of militaristic mother, in other words, Chong Hoo Buin that was made for the mobilization of women under the war system in the late 1930s. Ironically, Hiratsuka's maternalism was devoted to place mothers at the forefront of women's peace movement by the ‘Japanese Mothers’ Meeting' in the postwar period. what was difference in the meaning of maternity, war and peace in the frame of her maternalism between prewar and postwar? what was difference in the politics of war and peace of her maternalism between prewar and postwar? In exploring these questions, this study attempted to explore how the cognitive frame of maternity, war and peace had influence on Asia's security and the lives of Asian women. For this study, the qualitative content analysis of research method was used. The result of research was as follows. First, Hiratsuka's maternalism which contained ethnocentric maternalism gave maternity the instinctive power for peace in the 1910s to 1960s. As a result, her maternalism awarded mothers the apostle for Japanese women's peace movement in the postwar period. Second, the Japanese mothers' peace movement of ‘Japanese Mothers’ Meeting' highlighted the victims of war upon mothers. Consequently the Japanese mothers’ peace movement of ‘Japanese Mothers’ Meeting' coverd up the ravages of Asian women who were mistreated during the wars. Third, the spectrum of the concept of peace in the frame of Hiratsuka's maternalism embraced various ideological stripes of pacifism from absence of war at any price to just war for peace. Therefore her maternalism could not acknowledge the Japanese invasion of Asia and Japanese responsibility for the wars of aggression into Asia.

Hiratsuka Raicho, the well-known new woman in modern Japan, constructed maternalism through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ in the Daisho period. Since then Hiratsuka's maternalism asserting rights of women and maternity protection toward the state was practiced. But the Second Sino-Japanese War lasted in the late 1930s, the contents and assertions of Hiratsuka's maternalism had been altered. Particularly, this research was to investigate the transformation of Hiratsuka's maternalism during the Second Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s. Because her maternalism of the late 1930s had important meanings which were distinguished from Hiratsuka's maternalism composed through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ in Daisho period. As a result of research, Hiratsuka's maternalism was fused into the discourse of militaristic mother, that is Chong Hoo Buin(hereafter women in the rear guard). Therefore the contents and assertions of Hiratsuka's maternalism had been transformed. First, her maternalism was very emphatic on mothering education of women in the rear guard to beautify Japanese invasion of China. Second, Hiratsuka who emphasized the state's guarantee of maternity proposed many plans for the maternity protection of women in the rear guard. Especially Hiratsuka highlighted the tragic calamity that wars and venereal diseases inflicted upon maternity, family, children and ethic Japanese people. This also led Hiratsuka to demand the programs of venereal disease prevention for Japanese mothers. Besides, as men joined the army in the Second Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s more and more women entered the workforce in this period. Hiratsuka stressed the maternity protection along with special protection of women's labor. Especially Hiratsuka's maternalism connected this maternity protection with national hygienics which was emphasized by the militarism of the emperor system of Japan in this period. Third, Hiratsuka's maternalism which declared progressive women's movement in 1920 was altered to set up an alliance with the activities of militaristic state-inspired women's organizations that were made for the mobilization of women under the war system in the late 1930s.

Hiratsuka Raicho, the well-known new woman in modern Japan who constructed maternalism through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ in Daisho period. This article is to research Hiratsuka's maternalism composed in ‘the debate on maternity protection’ from the Asian women's perspective. As a result of research, Hiratsuka's maternalism combined all the three major conceps of ‘the debate on maternity protection’. Namely, her maternalism combined with Ellen Key‘s theory of motherhood, motherhood of ethnic/nation state and protection of maternity. Generally speaking, Ellen Key‘s theory of motherhood must have based on eugenics and social-darwinism that was abused by imperialism and fascism. And the idea of motherhood of ethnic/nation state was converted into the state's ideology of genetic superiority, in which the children should be considered as social or national resources rather than as personal belongings and that the number and quality of children gave a strong influence to the development and destiny of the nation. As a result of motherhood of ethnic/nation state could not transcend the rule of the emperor system of Japan. Also Hiratsuka who emphasized the state's guarantee of maternity proposed many plans for the maternity protection toward the state. Among them, there were plans of the maternity protection that had dangerous influence on Asian women. For example, Hiratsuka highlighted the tragic calamity that a series of wars and venereal diseases inflicted upon maternity, family, children and ethic Japanese people. This also led Hiratsuka to demand the programs of venereal disease prevention for Japanese mothers. Her claims also had influence to make ‘comfort women’ mobilization policy from the Japanese occupied colonies and other Asian countries during the Asia Pacific War. In this way, Hiratsuka's maternalism composed through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ had dangerous ripple effects on Asian women.

This research traces the root and background of a discourse that conflates “comfort women” with sex workers and/ or Japanese Prostitutes(醜業婦,fallen women) back to the history of Japanese women's movement. Drawing from The Complete Works of Hiratsuka Raicho, this research focuses on the case of maternal feminism and related discourses of sexuality which was founded by Hiratsuka, a symbolic and representative figure of Japanese women’s movement. This research finds that the discourse of sexuality which was constructed by Hiratsuka’s maternal feminism entailed discursive suturing of internally contradictory values. To put it in other terms, though Hiratsuka did not acknowledge human rights for sex workers, she at the same time retained moralistic paradigm that perceived sex workers as ‘trouble makers’. In so doing, Hiratsuka also put sex workers back into the stigmatized cateory of ‘fallen women’. The basic assumption that underlies Hiratsuka’s understanding of sex workers was that they were ‘the enemy of maternity, a venereal disease’, those who spoiled maternity and family. Accordingly, Hiratsuka highlighted the tragic calamity that a series of wars and venereal diseases inflicted upon maternity, family, children and race. This also led Hiratsuka to practically undo the difference between ‘comfort women’ who were from the Japanese occupied colonies and other Asian countries, those who were forced into this position, and other sex workers who worked in the Japanese state-regulated-brothel. Hiratsuka’s maternal feminism and her understanding of prostitution has resonated to the Japanese women’s movement of the 1990s and after,as it has been divided over the issue of ‘comfort women’. While some assumed progressive stance and others took conservative-right-wing position, the rest simply remained silent.

This research makes a comparative study of women's modern awakening in Korea and Japan centering around the documents on women's rights, that is Yeo Kewon Tong Mun and “In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun”. Yeo Kewon Tong Mun, as an feminist activism to change the feudal system and to transform into a modern society, was promulgated on September 1st, 1898. “In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun”, as an feminist activism to change the good mother and housewife of the Meiji modernization that is the transformation of premodern ideology of the wise mother and good wife, was promulgated on September 11th, 1911. This research has four purposes to understand the similarities and differences of women's modern awakening in Korea and Japan. Firstly, the research aims to explain the various meanings and brings awareness of issues of Yeo Kewon Tong Mun, which was the origin of current feminist movement in Korea. Secondly, it examines the various meanings and brings awareness of issues of “In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun”, which was the beginning of current feminist movement in Japan. The third, it clarifies distinct characteristics of women’s modern awakening connected with the problems of nation-state and gender between Korea and Japan. Finally, from the contents discussed above it makes a comparative study of women's modern awakening in Korea and Japan. In brief, Modern Korean women’s awakening became prominent under the condition where people tried to overcome feudalism and colonialization and sought enlightenment. While Japanese women’s awakening was formed and developed during the Daisho period, this time was generally known as the heyday of the Empire of Japan.

The primary object of this study is to investigate the politics of memory of Japanese military ‘comfort women’ problems at Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, known as the WAM. For the purpose of this object, this study focuses the exhibition and signification of the ‘comfort women’ at the WAM from the perspective of transnational feminism. The results are as follows. First, the pictures of the women victims of the Japanese military sexual violence(155 women all over Asia during World War II) welcome people who visit the WAM. This exhibition of survivor’s portraits is to free from Korean comfort women. Second, The regular exhibition of the “Comfort Stations” all over Asia is to free from Korean comfort women. Third, the WAM exhibits former soldiers testifying about their crimes in China, Burma, The Philippines, East Timor etc. This exhibition has the effect of showing another face of Japan. Therefore the WAM focuses on the issue of ‘military comfort women,’ those forced to offer sexual service to Japanese soldiers during the Asia–Pacific War. The WAM has been leading political activism against right‐wing nationalists who deny the history of military sexual slavery. But the WAM brings Korean feminist nationalism who tried to clarify the nature of ‘victimihood’ in the context of colonialism political défferance to remember the war and comfort women.

This paper researches the peace politics of ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ in the context of Northeast Asian women’s peace solidarity. For the purpose of this research, it focuses on three issues, that is the characteristics and genealogy of main group of ‘WomenCrossDMZ’, the ideological direction of globalizing the peaceful reunification of Korean peninsula and peace treaty. Data are collected of the documents of ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ and Northeast Asian women’s peace movement. Several findings of this research have been the followings. First, ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ made up of women from North and South Korea, Northeast Asia and around the world. Nonetheless the main group of ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ and the member of Northeast Asian women’s peace solidarity were overlapped each other fairly. Second, ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ globalized the issue of peaceful reunification of Korean peninsula in the radical feminist praxis closely connected with transnational women’s peace movement of ‘Code Pink’ and so on. In this direction, three discourses on peace of North Korea, South Korean women with progressive ideas and radical transnational feminist were converged. Third, the official end of the Korean War by replacing the armistice agreement with a peace treaty was called for by ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ and North Korean women and South Korean women with progressive ideas in Northeast Asian women’s peace solidarity. Therefore the peace politics of ‘WomenCrossDMZ’ was ready rather than accidental in the context of Northeast Asian women’s peace solidarity.

The purpose of this research was to explore the implication of global feminist politics of Japanese women’s movement weighed through their solidarity experiences in ‘Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan’. For the object of the research, this research used the oral materials conducted depth interviews with Japanese women activists acted in ‘Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan’. An important result of this research showed that the global feminist politics of Japanese women’s activism practiced in ‘Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan’ worked in intermixed ways with nationalism. Namely global feminist activism of Japanese Women embedded in the ‘progressive’ nationalism, but separated with Korean feminist nationalism tried to clarify the nature of ‘victimihood’ in the context of colonialism and Japanese nationalism of right-wing conservatives. Finally, this research allowed us to highlight its interconnectedness of nationalism and global feminism. That was nationalism did not disappear under global feminist politics in the era of globalization. Therefore a new kind of women’s transnational solidarity activism, called ‘global feminist politics’ was a hard project in East-Asia although the different participants shared compatible value system that could cut across differences in positioning and identities of colonized state and colonial ruling state.

Objectives: This study aims to highlight the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP) among dental hygienists and to support improvements in public oral health by encouraging the use of EBP in clinical settings. Methods: A survey was conducted with 136 dental hygienists who had at least one year of clinical experience. The EBP competency survey assessed their knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Results: Work experience and knowledge of EBP were found to be significant factors influencing EBP practice, accounting for 50.5% of the variance (p<0.001). Participants' practice of EBP was lower than their knowledge and attitudes, indicating a disparity between these factors. Conclusions: These findings suggest the need for structured educational programs and stronger institutional support to help dental hygienists apply EBP more effectively in clinical practice. This will improve the quality of dental hygiene services and contribute to better public oral health.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of an assessment tool for dental hygienists' consideration of patients with mild disabilities. Methods: Thirty-seven preliminary questions were compiled through literature review, and thirty-two questions were selected through content validity testing by eight experts. Two hundred and three dental hygienists completed the assessment tool as an online survey. The construct validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability of the tool were investigated using the SPSS 26.0 program. The construct validity was assessed using exploratory factor analysis. The internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) value with 95% confidence intervals was calculated for test-retest reliability. Results: Ten items and four factors were selected through exploratory factor analysis. The internal consistency reliability of the tool was found to be Cronbach's alpha=0.658, and test-retest reliability was found to be ICC=0.812. Conclusions: An assessment tool of care for patients with mild disabilities by dental hygienists is a reliable and valid tool suitable for the job characteristics of dental hygienists. It can be used in clinical practice and research.

Objectives: This study was conducted by clinical dentistry hygienists to develop knowledge measurement tools and evaluate knowledge necessary to cope with emergencies related to systemic diseases occurring in dentistry. Methods: Basic questions were developed on the six most frequently occurring diseases in the dental office: diabetes, syncope, respiratory disease, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, and epilepsy. Fifty-eight preliminary questions were composed in a survey format through expert validation. The survey was then conducted on 290 dental hygienists to verify the composition validity and reliability. Factor and reliability analyses were performed using the SPSS 23.0 program, and the correct answer rate for each question was calculated. Results: 49 items of a total of 13 factors were adopted as the final items for signs, symptoms, prevention and treatment of five diseases. The question with the highest percentage of correct answers for each question was "Slowly set up the unit chair when raising the patient"(97.9%) during the prevention of unconsciousness and question with the lowest correct answer rate was "soft substances such as cloth should be put in the mouth to prevent trauma while the seizure persists" (16.6%). Conclusions: A total of 49 questions have been developed as tools to measure the knowledge of dental hygienists' first aid related to systemic diseases and it is expected that related curriculum can be operated or evaluated by using them.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the perception of dental infection-control coordinator (DICC) among dental hygienist and determine whether there is a difference in perception depending on the type of work. Methods: Dental hygienists working at the dentistry were conveniently extracted and distributed to 351 patients, and the data of 320 patients were finally analyzed. The chi-square test was conducted to determine the difference in perception of the DICC according to the type of work, and the one-way ANOVA was performed to determine the difference in the perception of DICC tasks. A p-value of <0.05 was statistically significant. Results: General hospitals and university hospitals (100%), dental hospitals (95.8%), and dental clinics (86.6%) showed the highest awareness of the need for DICC. The dental clinics had the lowest level of awareness regarding the duties of the DICC, and dental hospitals and clinics were in different areas with different levels of awareness regarding infection control-related administrative support areas (3.98-4.21 and 3.79-4.12 of 5). Conclusions: Because of a difference in perception regarding the work of DICC according to the type of work, dental organizations should establish the tasks of DICC and develop an education program for a person in charge based on this.

Objectives: This study aimed to develop human rights indicators through reliability and validity tests in order to measure the human rights situation of dental hygiene students who experience clinical practice at dental clincs. Methods: The basic framework of questions was constructed through literature review. Nine experts were tested for validity of the contents of the experts twice. The main survey was conducted on 121 students in the 3rd and 4th grade who were enrolled in the department of dental hygiene located in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Gangwon-do. Validity was tested through exploratory factor analysis, and reliability was tested through internal reliability coefficient and test-retest method. Results: The cronbach's α value was 0.734, and the Kappa coefficient was 0.584. The result of the reliability and validity test was composed of 11 questions and 3 factors. Conclusions: During the practice of a dental institution, the validity and reliability of the indicators that can grasp the human rights status of dental hygiene students were tested. It is expected that the indicators of this study will be provided an opportunity to understand the human rights situation of dental hygiene students and to improve problems such as human rights violations.