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Increase in dental hygienists’ competency and self-directed capacity after capstone design course on community dental hygiene

  • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
  • Abbr : J Korean Soc Dent Hyg
  • 2024, 24(2), pp.99~108
  • DOI : 10.13065/jksdh.20240011
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Dentistry
  • Received : December 30, 2023
  • Accepted : April 2, 2024
  • Published : April 30, 2024

Seon-Ju Sim ORD ID 1,  Lee Sun-Mi 2

1Department of Dental Hygiene, Baekseok University
2Department of Dental Hygiene, Dongnam Health University

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Objectives: This study aimed to verify the effect on students’ competency and self-directed capacity after a capstone design teaching method with community dental hygiene class. Methods: The study participants were 34 dental hygiene students taking a 4-year community dental hygiene course at a university located in City C. The research tool consisted of 52 questions on major competency and 20 questions on self-directed capacity. Results: After the capstone design class, overall dental hygienists’ competency increased (p<0.05), and competencies of clinical dental hygiene and community health promotion showed a high increase (p<0.001). As a result of analyzing the increase in dental hygienists’ competency according to self-directed learning ability, the group with low self-directed capacity showed high improvement in clinical dental hygiene competency and community oral health promotion competency. Conclusions: This study confirmed that the capstone design course in community dental hygiene improved students’ competency and self-directed capacity, and suggests that it is an excellent teaching method for training competencies required for future society.

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