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- Title
Survey on Nursing Home Caregivers' Basic Knowledge of Oral Health Management: Dental Terminology.
- Authors
Yanagisawa, Shizuko; Yoshioka, Masami; Shirayama, Yasuhiko
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
DENTAL health education; GERIATRIC nursing education; DENTISTRY terminology; PREVENTIVE health services for older people; MEDICAL personnel-caregiver relationships
- Publication
Dentistry (2304-6767), 2018, Vol 6, Issue 3, p28
- ISSN
2304-6767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/dj6030028