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A study on the attitudes toward robot utilization in dental hygiene students

Hee-Hong Min 1 Ahn Kwon Suk 2

1대전보건대학교
2초당대학교

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ABSTRACT

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting robot utilization in the education of pre-dental hygienists. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 238 dental hygiene students studying in the Daejeon, Chungcheong, and Jeolla provinces during the period March 1–31, 2017. Results: Future oral health education media had high selection of ‘movies,’ ‘video,’ ‘3D printer,’ ‘robot,’ and ‘drone’ In general education and oral health education, robots were appropriate as educators, assistant teachers, and media. This group had high levels of interest, experience, attitude, and learning scope of robots. Robot utilization education showed a significant positive correlation with the ‘interest,’ ‘experience,’ ‘attitude,’ and ‘learning’ subfactors ( p <0.01). Factors influencing robot utilization education were the relationships among actual experience of robot, learning of robot production, social influence of robot, emotional exchange with robot, and the predictive power was 25.5% ( p <0.05). Conclusions: Oral health education curricula using robots should be developed considering the emotional exchange and social influence between educator and learner .

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