Correlation between stress and oral health in some high school students
Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate the correlation between stress and oral health in some high school students. Methods: The subjects were 224 students from three high schools in Daejeon, Daecheon, and Incheon. from November to December, 2015. A self reported questionnaire was filled out from November to December, 2015. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects, awareness toward stress, stress coping pattern, oral health related quality of life and oral health care. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0 program. Results: In the analysis of academic stress level by the general characteristics and stress level, higher stress group showed higher experience in stress expectation(high group 16.43, subgroup 9.21) internal stress(high group 13.97, subgroup 6.16) expression type stress(high 10.06, sub 4.95) The higher stress group had emotional stress management in stress coping pattern and less experience in difficulty of tooth brushing, chewing discomfort, and oral health related quality of life management(p