高雄地區女性牙科助理人員對上呼吸道傳染病知識、態度及預防行為之研究

Upper-Respiratory disease knowledge ,attitude toward risk and prevention behaviors among female dental personnel’s in Kaohsiung.

許綠芳(Fang-Lu Hsu)

指導教授 ： 黃曉靈

高雄醫學大學/口腔醫學院/牙醫學研究所碩士在職專班/碩士(2012年)

https://doi.org/10.6832/KMU.2012.00105

摘要

背景:牙科助理人員對呼吸道傳染疾病知識、態度及預防行為，會影響自身及病患被傳染可能性。研究目的: 探討高雄地區女性牙科助理人員對上呼吸道傳染病之知識、態度及於預防行為相關性。研究方法: 橫斷性方便取樣，自99年12月1日到100年1月31日，針對高雄地區醫院附屬牙科、聯盟診所、及私人診所女性助理人員，採自填式問卷收集資料。實際發送樣本數200份，並排除一份男性牙科助理人員，回收有效問卷192份，回收率96％。最後使用：t檢定、單因子變異數分析、線性回歸分析，不同專業背景、教育程度、工作地點與傳染病之知識、態度及預防行為之差異。結果:疾病態度與專業背景、與教育程度、及工作地點有顯著差異（P<0.005）。有醫護背景，教育程度愈高及在醫院工作的牙科助理人員對疾病認知較高，對疾病預防也要較有信心，工作地點和預防行為有顯著差異（P<0.001）在醫院工作之牙科助理人員有正確預防行為之觀念。
結論:相對於醫護背景助理人員非醫護背景之牙科助理人員對疾病認知的認知與態度較為不足對於疾病之預防行為也明顯不足，建議在非醫院之牙科機構加強牙科助理人員對上呼吸道傳染病之相關課程以增加呼吸道傳染病之預防。

關鍵字

牙科助理人員 ； 上呼吸道傳染病 ； 知識 ； 態度 ； 預防行為

並列摘要

Objective: Research on possibilities on dental assistants’ knowledge of respiratory infection disease, attitude, and preventive behavior might infect themselves and their patients.
Material and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted from December 1st 2011 to January 31st 2012 in Kaohsiung. Data was collected by a questionnaire for female dentist assistants in hospital dentist clinics, alliance clinics and private hospital. Final sample size was 200, excluded one male dentist assistant. The response rate was 96%. Differences of relevance between social demographic variables and knowledge, attitude and prevention behaviors were analyzed by using t-test, variance analysis and linear regression analysis Results: Upper-Respiratory disease knowledge and attitude was significantly associated with their professional background, educational level, and working place (p<0.05). Dental assistants working in hospital had higher awareness of preventive behaviors while comparing with those working in clinics (p<0.001). The higher disease-related knowledge, self-confidence and preventive behaviors were also found in those dental assistants who have medical background, higher educational level and work in hospital.
Conclusion: In addition to dental assistants with medial background owns higher acknowledge on disease-related knowledge and efficient disease prevention ideas. It is suggested enhance those dental assistants’ knowledge of preventing respiratory infection disease is necessary.

並列關鍵字

Attitude ； Dental assistant ； Knowledge ； Preventive behavior ； Upper-Respiratory Disease

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