Program development for regular dental check-up promotion

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593170
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social dentistry
• Research Institution: The Nippon Dental University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Tomoko 日本歯科大学, 生命歯学部, 講師 (70307958)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAEGAKI Ken 日本歯科大学, 生命歯学部, 教授 (40166468)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ヘルスプローション / 健康教育 / 小児

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We determined the effects of educational program employing the newly developed teaching materials on behavioral modification through developing self-management ability.
Grade Ⅲ and Ⅳ students, 371 subjects in Okinawa island, participated in this study. We investigated lifestyle and oral health status and classified them into 3 groups utilizing 3 types of health education respectively, and performed a cohort study for 3 years.
Our results showed increase of the score found in only the health education group for improving the self-management ability, and the significant relation was determined: the self-management ability as behavioral modification was found and etc. i.e. the item of “homework rather early complete". Therefore our teaching materials were effective in improving the self-management ability, and it was suggested that this result contributes to regular dental check-up promotion.

Free Research Field

口腔衛生