Periodontal Status in Accordance with the Daily Stress and Coping and Control Effect of Oral Health Behavior.
10.17135/jdhs.2016.16.6.472
- Author:
Eun Sol KIM
1
;
Eun Mi CHOI
;
Gyeong Soon HAN
Author Information
1. Department of Dental Hygiene, Graduate School of Public Health, Gachon University, Incheon 21936, Korea. gshan@gachon.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Periodontal pocket;
Scaling;
Stress;
Stress coping
- MeSH:
Adult;
Employment;
Gingivitis;
Humans;
Oral Health*;
Periodontal Pocket
- From:
Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2016;16(6):472-480
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
In this study, 110 adults aged 40 to 69 years were surveyed from April 28, 2016, to May 28, 2016 to analyze their periodontal status according to daily stress, coping methods, and oral health behavior. The collected data were analyzed using the t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and hierarchical multiple regression. Daily stress levels of all subjects were most frequent potential risk 64.5% of the subjects, the high risk 19.1% and 16.4% of the health group. Regarding stress coping methods, active methods recorded 2.46, passive methods recorded 2.32. Regarding oral health behaviors, subjects brushed an average of 2.45 times daily, for an average of 2 minutes. Futhermore, 69.1% of subjects brushed before bedtime and 89.1% practiced scaling. Regarding periodontal status, the O'Leary index was 73.45, gingivitis index was 1.30, an average of 2.83 quadrants possessed a periodontal pocket. The hierarchical multiple regression analysis identified, type of employment (β=−0.348), scaling (β= −0.253), and age (β=0.244) as factors that influence the number of quadrants possessing a periodontal pocket. These results confirmed that the oral health behavior of scaling, but not stress levels of coping methods, strongly influenced periodontal status.
