家長對學童嚼食含木糖醇口香糖以減少齲齒的認知與意願調查

An Investigation on Parental Knowledge Regarding Xylitol Gum and Acceptance of Children's Use of Xylitol Chewing Gum

林韋銓(Wei-Chuan Lin) ； 駱嘉鴻(Chia-Hung Lo) ； 周肇茂(Tsau-Mau Chou) ； 陳弘森(Hong-Sen Chen)

《臺灣兒童牙醫學雜誌》 7卷1期 (2007/03) Pp. 19-25

https://doi.org/10.6319/TJPD.2007.7(1).3

摘要

研究目的：本研究之目在於了解家長對於含木糖醇口香糖的認知，並且調查家長對於學童嚼食含木糖醇口香糖的接受度。
方法：研究對象為以分層抽樣方式針對台中縣與台中市六所國民小學之學童家長，以結構式問卷進行調查。問卷調查內容為家長基本資料、口腔衛生習慣、對於含木糖醇口香糖的認知、以及接受學童嚼食含木糖醇口香糖的情形。問卷所得資料皆以JMP5.12套裝軟體輸入建檔，利用JMP5.12分析軟體進行統計分析。
結果：一共發出1086份問卷，有效問卷為959份，回收率為88.80%。家長接受學童嚼食含木糖醇口香糖之比例為37.02%。知道含木糖醇口香糖具降低齲齒功效之比例為80.61%，不知道者占19.40%。家長對於含木糖醇口香糖的認知，以電視廣告與報章雜誌兩者為主要來源。
結論：本研究顯示家長都知道含木糖醇口香糖這項產品，但對於含木糖醇能降低齲齒發生率持保留的態度，以致讓學童食用含木糖醇口香糖接受度偏低。

關鍵字

含木糖醇口香糖 ； 木糖醇

並列摘要

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to learn parental awareness of xylitol chewing gum and investigate the acceptance of xylitol chewing gum for their children.
Subjects & Methods: The subjects of this study were the parents of pupils in six of the elementary schools in Taichung County and Taichung City. All of the subjects were required to fill in the questionnaires. The data collected from the questionnaires were analyzed with the statistics software by JMP5.12.
Results: The results demonstrated that 37.02% of the parents allowed their children to chew xylitol gum. More than 80% of the parents were aware of xylitol chewing gum, while 19.40% of them were unaware of it. The main sources of information about xylitol chewing gum were from commercials, newspapers, and magazines.
Conclusions: This study indicated that parents were well aware of the product of xylitol chewing gum. However, they still doubted whether xylitol could reduce the caries incidence, which caused fewer parents to allow their children to chew xylitol gum.

並列關鍵字

Xylitol Chewing Gum ； Xylitol