부산·경남지역 대학생들의 안면외상에 대한 지식수준

Knowledge of Oral Trauma in College Students in the Region of Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do Province

The purpose of this study was to examine the level of the knowledge of college students on oral trauma in the region of Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do Province. A survey was conducted on the selected college students who resided in these areas during a three-month period of time from March, 2015, and the answer sheets from 290 respondents were analyzed. As for oral trauma experience according to characteristics, more trauma experiences were found among the respondents who were older (p=0.002), whose allowance was larger (p=0.047) and whose workout frequency was higher (p=0.011). Regarding the characteristics of oral trauma including the reasons, bumping(16.6%) was the most dominant reason, and the most common injury was tooth fracture(16.9%). The most widely injured position was upper central incisor(18.6%). As to the necessity of education, as many as 80.7% considered related education to be necessary. As to age, the respondents who were aged between 18 and 22 had a significantly better knowledge about tooth fracture (p=0.038), tooth fracture (p<0.001) and tooth mobility (p=0.043) on the whole. As for the track of major, the health-related majors were more knowledgeable, and they had a significantly better knowledge on tooth fracture (p<0.001) and lip injuries (p=0.005). In regard to monthly allowance, the students who had 300 thousand won or less of monthly allowance had a significantly better knowledge of tooth mobility (p=0.005), and the students whose monthly allowance was between 310 and 600 thousand won had a significantly better knowledge on lip injuries (p=0.003). As to weekly drinking frequency, the respondents whose drinking frequency was larger had a less knowledge in general, and there were significant differences between them and the others in knowledge of tooth fracture (p=0.002), tooth fracture (p=0.010) and tooth mobility (p=0.032). Therefore it will be possible to prevent oral trauma if educational programs are developed to provide education on that.