Yanagisawa Shizuko, Yoshioka Masami, Shirayama Yasuhiko
Department of Oral Health Science and Social Welfare, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8504, Japan.
Department of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan.
Dent J (Basel). 2018 Jul 2;6(3):28. doi: 10.3390/dj6030028.
With the increasing numbers of the elderly requiring care in Japan, the management of their oral health care will require cooperation between medical and dental professionals, and we need to transfer dental knowledge from dental professionals to caregivers. With the help of a questionnaire, we examined 181 caregivers' depth of understanding regarding 20 typical dental terms with a view to improving the educational instruction provided to them. It was found that except for "clasp", popular dental terms have largely been accepted. The differences in their degrees of understanding could be owing to the lack of systematic education for caregivers.
在日本，需要护理的老年人数量不断增加，对他们口腔保健的管理将需要医学和牙科专业人员之间的合作，而且我们需要将牙科知识从牙科专业人员传授给护理人员。借助一份调查问卷，我们考察了181名护理人员对20个典型牙科术语的理解深度，以便改进向他们提供的教育指导。结果发现，除了“卡环”之外，常见的牙科术语在很大程度上已被接受。他们理解程度的差异可能是由于对护理人员缺乏系统的教育。
