Relation between Dental Hygienists’ Participation in Continuing Education and License Registration Awareness

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the relevant factors between the completion of continuing education that is required for license registration and license registration awareness.Methods: The data were conducted an online questionnaire survey on 330 dental hygienists working in dental clinic in Daegu. Data were analyzed using frequency, logistic regression, multiple regression with the SPSS 25.0 program.Results: It was revealed that 83.4% of the subjects of this study completed continuing education. The variables that were statistically significant in multivariate analysis with license registration awareness as a dependent variable were marital status, education level, number of dental hygienists, main duty, annual, monthly leave, route of information, and experience of getting official documents. Finally, when continuing education was completed, license registration awareness was found to have a positive correlation compared to those who did not complete continuing education (p< 0.001).Conclusions: The role and responsibility of the Korean Dental Hygienists Association is more important for practical alternatives and improvements leading to license registration by increasing the completion of continuing education and license registration awareness.