RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE’S STRESS LEVELS AND SUBJECTIVE ORAL HEALTH CONDITIONS AND BEHAVIOUR

Young-Hee Jeong*

ABSTRACT

The study was performed to identify the relationship between employees’ stress and subjective oral health conditions and behaviour. The survey was done from April 20th to 25th, 2018 and targeted on people who are week days part timers and workers using a document preparation service, ‘Naver form’. The collected data was analysed by using SPSS ver. 24.0 and a one-way ANOVA. As a result, The highest average stress level was 20.74 for the ‘service workers’ and the lowest with 18.60 was for ‘other’ occupations. There was no statistically significant difference by occupations. The average stress level of those who answered ‘Very good’ of their subjective oral health condition was the lowest with 17.00, and the highest level was 21.48 for those who answered ‘Poor’. There was no statistical significance between the average stress level and their subjective oral health condition. The average stress level according to oral health care behaviour, such as scaling and smoking, showed no statistically significant difference. And to conclude, the better the oral condition, the lower the stress level. The more stressed, the lower the oral health behaviour and the poorer the subjective oral health status.

Keywords: Occupation-related stress, Subjective oral health condition, Oral health care.