Awareness Of University Students Research Articles

Awareness about Color Blindness among University Student

Basic purpose of this survey studies was to check awareness level about color blindness among university students. Color blindness is color vision deficiency (CVD), which occurs due to genetic disorder in specialized cell of eye. Patients suffering with color blindness are unable to differentiate between certain colors like red, green and blue. Red-green deficiency is common among all patients. A questionnaire was prepared to estimate awareness of university students about color blindness. It is concluded from this survey studies that mostly students are unaware about etiology and recent treatments of color blindness.

Awareness of College Students in the Adoption of Social Networking Sites in Creating a New Learning Environment

It is focused on understanding academicians’ intentions to meet the changed learning styles, preferences, and usage of social media for effective teaching, little is known about how students would use these social networking sites for learning besides their daily uses for gaming and communication especially in the student perception. Social media have great supported to students in academic related to improving in learning activities to success and motivation for students. In this study, an attempt has been made to identify the awareness of college students on social networking site and its applications in creating a learning environment and to explore the factors are significant in determine the usage of social networking sites in academic environment. It is made at from this research that certain factors are significant in determining the usage of social networking sites in creating a learning environment and these includes academic supports, consonance value, practical worth, reliability, comparative benefit and illustrated etc. the study reveals that increased use social networking sites in creating a new learning environment its helps to college students in efficient and better way.

Awareness Training for Sustainable Development: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Application

In achieving sustainable development goals, every society and person has the responsibility to attempt to eliminate poverty, protect the environment, and ensure that all people live in peace and prosperity. In order to fulfill this responsibility, it is necessary to organize activities to support sustainable development goals. When the increasing daily use of mobile technologies in education is considered, it is thought that these technologies exhibit important potential in raising awareness for sustainable development goals. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a mobile application for the awareness of university students about sustainable development goals. As a result of this research, the developed mobile application had a positive effect on university students’ awareness of sustainable development goals, and students were glad to use the application.

Difference In Multicultural Awareness and Multicultural Efficacy between Regular People of Multi-Cultural Backgrounds and North Korean Refugees, as Perceived by Nursing Students of South Korea

Background/Objectives: This study was conducted to identify the difference in multicultural awareness and multicultural efficacy between regular people of multi-cultural backgrounds and North Korean refugees, as perceived by nursing students.Method/Statistical Analysis: Data were collected using a total of 717 copies of a questionnaire. A frequency analysis, paired t-test, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients were used for the analysis.Finding: The analysis showed that the multicultural awareness of university students majoring in nursing, towards North Korean refugees was lower than the multicultural awareness they had towards regular people of multicultural backgrounds excluding North Korean refugees. In addition, both multicultural awareness and multicultural efficacy towards regular people and North Korean refugees had a positive correlation. This researcher suggests developing a program to promote multicultural capabilities in university students of nursing towards North Korean refugees.Improvements/Applications: This program would have to address the culture-specific awareness towards North Korean refugees in addition to general multicultural awareness.

Hearing Health Knowledge and Hearing Loss Awareness of University Students and Call Center Employees

Amaç: İşitme sağlığının korunması ve iyileştirilmesi Odyoloji Biliminin önceliklerindendir. Bu çalışma, Odyoloji Bölümü öğretim üyeleri ve öğrencileri tarafından, üniversite içerisinde ve meslekleri nedeni ile gürültüye maruz kalan çalışanlarda işitme sağlığı ile ilgili farkındalık oluşturabilmek amacı ile planlanmıştır. Yöntem: İşitme sağlığı açısından risk oluşturan durumlar, işitme sağlığının korunması ve konu ile ilgili bilgi düzeyinin ölçülmesi alanlarını kapsayan sorular kullanılarak bir ölçek oluşturulmuştur. Ölçeğe, bir öğrenci grubunda denenerek alınan geribildirimler doğrultusunda gerekli düzenlemeler yapılarak son hali verilmiştir. Öğrenciler ders saatlerinde, çalışanlar iş yerlerinde ziyaret edilerek yanıtlar toplanmıştır. Tüm veriler SPSS programı ile değerlendirilmiştir. Bulgular: Katılımcıların, işitme sağlığının korunmasına yönelik olarak kaçınılması gereken durumlar konusunda farkındalık ve bilgilenme düzeyinin teorik açıdan yüksek olduğu görülmektedir. Ancak pratik uygulama örneklerinde, muhtemelen bilgi kaynaklarının güvenilirliğine bağlı olarak yetersizlik izlenmektedir. Sonuç: Gürültünün yanı sıra işitme kaybına yol açabilen diğer nedenler ve kulak yapılarının fonksiyonları konuları da bilgilendirme kapsamında olmalıdır. Toplanan veriler doğrultusunda ileride yapılacak bilgilendirme çalışmalarının planlanması düşünülmüştür.

Determining the effects of information security knowledge on information security awareness via structural equation modelings

The aim of this study is by investigating the Information Security Awareness of University Students via statistical techniques, revealing the existing awareness and giving some suggestions to improve this awareness. By the internet, which entered our daily life snappily, information and technology era has been started and it gave new point of view by changing our lifestyle in many areas as electronic commerce, education and government. By developing and rapidly improving technology, Individuals' having enough capacity to use it, information culture has spread over all parts of the society. By increasing the information systems and internet every day, by using private and secret information, doing both public and individual processes via these systems has increased the importance of information and information systems and resolve the information awareness as an obligatory case. It can be observed nowadays that there are many information guilt is being perpetration. Its known that related ministry in our country is taking enough security precautions both hardware and software for the information and system security and researching on new actions. However, the most important factor to pan out for the information and system security is the development of corporate and individual awareness. With this purpose, to measure the computer usage praxis and Information Security Awareness levels of Students of Afyon Kocatepe University, by using "Information Security Awareness Scale", which has developed previously the related data is obtained via a questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS and LISREL software. In this study as statistical techniques, Explanatory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analyzes and Structural Equation Modeling is used.

Inclusive Design and Practices in Education: A Pilot Study in Davutpasa Campus

The public sphere of the city where the social relations of the social individuals live intensely has an important role in urban development. In addition to these changing circumstances, new requirements and problems such as the inclusion of these areas arise. It is an approach to raise awareness among university students as the main campus users who will increase and improve the spatial quality in professional life by increasing the awareness of university students who will continue the development of society, communities and cities and by increasing the quality of university campuses and spreading this philosophy within the society. The problem faced by users on university campuses is defined by surveys that enable all users to access campus equipment and develop solutions that enable them to use it as they wish. The aim of this study is to see the Davutpasa Campus’s inclusivity. In this context, a pilot study was conducted and the results were evaluated. At this stage of the study, the intelligibility of the questions and the adequacy of the answers were evaluated in terms of the nature of the questionnaire study.

대학생의 전공인식도가 전공만족도 및 4차 산업혁명 연계전공 선택 동기에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증 연구: 건국대학교 힐링바이오공유대학 사례

대학생의 전공인식도가 전공만족도 및 4차 산업혁명 연계전공 선택 동기에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증 연구: 건국대학교 힐링바이오공유대학 사례

Investigation of Awareness of University Students about Clothing Comfort Properties

Giysi konforu, kullanıcı performansını etkileyen parametrelerden biridir. Giysi konforu konusundaki algı ve değerlendirmeler, ortam sıcaklığı ve bağıl nem gibi çevresel; giysi seçimi ve metabolik oran gibi kişisel etkenlere bağlıdır. Kişilerin algılarındaki farklılık, psikolojik durum, vücudun giysi ve çevre ile olan etkileşimlerini açıklayan fizyolojik faktörler, konforu etkileyen önemli parametreler olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, giysi konfor değerlendirmeleri ile ölçülebilen kumaş özellikleri arasındaki ilişkileri incelemek ve farklı materyal ile yapısal özelliklere sahip kumaşların konforla ilişkili özelliklerini değerlendirmektir. Bu çalışmada 18-24 yaş aralığında farklı bölümlerde eğitim gören 100 adet kız ve erkek üniversite öğrencilerinin giysi konforu beklentileri çok kapsamlı bir anket örneği ile analiz edilmiş ve elde edilen sonuçlar cinsiyet faktörü de esas alınarak istatistiksel paket programı ile analiz edilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonuçlarına göre cinsiyet konfordan bağımsız bir parametredir.

Awareness about Stomach Cancer in Biotechnology Students

Stomach is the vital organ that helps in digestion of food. Any problem being occurred in stomach directly affects whole of digestive system. Now days, stomach cancer is being most common among the population. Stomach cancer also called gastric cancer. It is a type of cancer that starts to develop from stomach lining. When cells begin to produce in abnormal form the cancer starts to develop. Cells in any part of the body become cancer and can spread other part of the body. Stomach cancer starts in the stomach mostly the inner lining of stomach and slowly grows into other layers [1]. The causes of stomach cancer are helicobacter pylori infection, smoking and environment factors. Mostly the stomach cancer is cause by mutation in the CDH1 gene. CDH1 is involved in making the protein called epithelial cadherin or E-cadherin. It has also role in transmitting signals between the cells and regulating activity of certain genes [2]. The basic purpose of this study was to provide the awareness of university students about the disease.

A role for design academic institutions in developing clothing appreciation in university female students

The role of fashion specialization comes as one of the important and distinguished departments in the High Institute of Applied Arts because of its role in developing artistic and clothing taste for students of the department and other departments, through the preparation of seminars and workshops to develop clothing taste for students. In furtherance of this role, the researcher has prepared a guidebook that is an electronic brochure and is being uploaded to the Institute's website. The researcher will update its contents annually to match its contents with the new in the fashion world in a way that suits our societal traditions. The guide includes a simplified view of the general principles of design, women's body styles, and what suits each style of clothing, the most important successful color schemes for choosing a color-compatible clothing set, and finally how to create a successful clothing plan. The research problem lies in the fact that the research recently noticed the emergence of strange clothing styles about the values ​​of our society and our Egyptian identity worn by university girls. Hence the role of the departments of specialization in developing the beauty and clothing awareness of university girls. The research aims to enhance the role of specialized academic institutions in spreading the culture of clothing taste in a manner that is in harmony with the international fashion lines and directing them to suit customs and traditions. Upgrading the aesthetic sense and developing the clothing taste of university students. The research follows the descriptive analytical method. The research sample consisted of a sample of random students from all disciplines at the High Institute of Applied Arts, the first semester of the academic year (2016-2017) and their number (40) students. The research tools are a questionnaire for students to know their tendencies and attitudes towards their choice of the quality of their clothes. Designing the guide: The researcher presented the guide in the form of an electronic booklet. Among the most important results of the study is the activation of the role of specialized design departments in spreading the culture of clothing taste for university students. The design of the guidebook may raise the degree of clothing awareness of university students. Among the most important recommendations of the research is to increase the number of seminars and prepare more guidelines for spreading the culture of artistic taste.

Honey consumption preferences of university students <p>Üniversite öğrencilerinin bal tüketim tercihleri

Research problem/aim: Turkey has a strategic importance in honey production. National or regional data on the consumption of honey, an important part of which is exported in our country and subject to new research every day, is not sufficient. This research was planned and conducted in order to determine honey consumption amounts, consumption preferences and purchasing behaviors of student of university at Kayseri.Method: Research was conducted between February and September 2015 at two different universities, one foundation university and one state university, in Kayseri with the largest student potential. The study was completed with a total of 2178 students in line with the opinion of a Statistics Expert. The data were collected by the researchers using questionnaires. SPSS package program was used to evaluate the obtained data.Findings: Mean age of the students was 22.3±3.17. Only 12.5% of the participants were consuming honey daily. 12.1% of the participants were not consuming honey at all, whereas 47.9% consumed honey rarely. Monthly honey consumption of 78.9% for men and 83.8% for females was less than 500g per month , while the amount of honey consumed at one time was generally (40.6%) a meal spoon(16 g). Among university students, the most important contributing factor for consuming honey was being nutritious (54.8%). The most preferred type of honey was filtered and honeycomb, while flower and pine honey were the most preferred varieties (56.6%, 28.9%, 72.2% and 23.7%, respectively). When purchasing honey, students paid attention to the consistency, brand and production dates (20.5%, 19.7%, 25.5% respectively), whereas appearance and price were not significant (4.7%, 7.8%). As the monthly allowance of students increases monthly honey consumption also increases.Conclusions: Increasing scientific studies on honey production and consumption will facilitate the promotion of honey products specific to Turkey both domestically and internationally. Increasing the awareness of university students on healthy nutrition and sugar consumption is highly important.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetAmaç: Ülkemiz bal üretiminde stratejik bir öneme sahiptir. Ülkemizde üretilen balın önemli bir kısmı ihraç edilirken ülke içinde tüketicilerin bal tercihleri ve tüketimi hakkında çok az bilgi vardır. Bu araştırma Kayseri’de üniversite öğrencilerinin bal tüketim miktarlarını ve tüketimlerine yönelik tercihlerini saptamak amacıyla yürütülmüştür.Yöntem: Araştırma Kayseri ilinde en çok öğrenci potansiyeline sahip biri devlet diğeri vakıf olmak üzere iki farklı üniversitede, Şubat-Eylül 2015 tarihleri arasında yapılmıştır. Çalışma kapsamına İstatistik uzmanının görüşü doğrultusunda toplam 2178 öğrenci ile tamamlanmıştır. Veriler anket yöntemi ile araştırmacılar tarafından yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda elde edilen verilerin değerlendirilmesinde SPSS paket programı kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Öğrencilerin yaş ortalaması 22.3±3.17dır. Öğrencilerin %12.1’i balı hiç tüketmezken %47.9’sinin tüketimi ise seyrektir. Bir seferde tüketilen bal miktarı çoğunlukla (%40.6) bir yemek kaşığı olurken (16 g), erkeklerin %78.92’ sinin, kadınların %83.8’nin aylık bal tüketimi ayda 500 g’dan daha azdır. Üniversite öğrencileri arasında balın tercih edilmesinin en önemli nedeni besleyici özelliğinin olmasıdır (%54.8). En sık tercih edilen bal tipi, süzme ve petekli bal iken yayla çiçek ile çam balı en çok tercih edilen çeşitlerdendir (sırasıyla %56.6, %28.9, %72.2 ve %23.7). Öğrenciler balı satın alırken kıvamına, markasına ve üretim tarihlerine dikkat ederken (sırasıyla %20.5, %19.7, %25.5), balın görüntüsünün ve fiyatının önemli olmadığı anlaşılmaktadır (%4.7, %7.8). Öğrencilerin aylık harçlıkları artıkça aylık bal tüketimleri artmaktadır. Sonuçlar: Bal üretim ve tüketimine yönelik bilimsel çalışmaların artırılması yurt içinde ve dışında ülkemize özgü balların tanıtımına yarar sağlayacaktır. Üniversite öğrencilerinin sağlıklı beslenme ve şeker tüketimi konusunda bilinçlendirilmesi önemlidir.

Environmental Awareness of University Students on White Cheese Waste Water

Universal environmental contamination is a real situation that deteriorates our world step by step. The dairy factory out flowing is the second greatest source of contamination in water streams. The environmental impact of these factories can be very high, especially due to the discharge of wastewater with high content of organic matter and nutrients. These problems can be analyzed only after performing factual study of various physicochemical characteristics. In the presented study, physicochemical parameters like, temperature, pH, COD, TDS, TS and SS were taken into account. Another purpose of this study is to ascertain university student’s awareness and consciousness against general and dairy products related environments. These levels were evaluated by the survey method. The data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS 20.0. Results showed that the public and company owners/ employees in particular should be informed about the seasonal and cheese variety dependent patterns in environmental pollution.

مستوى الوعي بأساليب مواجهة خطر الفکر الإرهابي کما يدرکها طلاب الجامعة تبعًا لبعض المتغيرات في الأردن

هدفت الدراسة التعرف على مستوى وعي طلبة الجامعات الأردنية بأساليب مواجهة خطر الفکر الإرهابي تبعا لبعض المتغيرات (نوع الجامعة، والسنة الدراسية، والنوع) من وجهة نظرهم، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم استخدام مقياس أساليب مواجهة الفکر الإرهابي الذي قام الباحثان بتطويره مکون من (23) فقرة، وطبق على عينة قوامها من (292) طالبا وطالبة، منهم (125) ذکرا و(167) أنثى، تم اختيارهم بالطريقة العشوائية، واستخدم المنهج الوصفي الارتباطي.وأظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن مستوى وعي طلبة الجامعات الأردنية بأساليب مواجهة الفکر الإرهابي جاء بمستوى متوسط، حيث جاءت الفقرة (1) والتي تنص على: يجب التشديد على البرامج الإعلامية التي تروج للأعمال الإرهابية من قبل أصحاب الفکر المتطرف في المرتبة الأولى،بينما جاءت الفقرة (2) ونصها التأويلات المختلفة لآيات القرآن الکريم والأحاديث النبوية تسمح في نشر التطرف بالمرتبة الأخيرة. وجاء مستوى وعي طلبة الجامعات لأساليب مواجهة الخطر الفکري للإرهاب ضمن مستوى متوسط. کما بينت النتائج عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية تعزى لنوع الجامعة، أوالسنة الدراسة، ووجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية تعزى لأثر النوع الاجتماعي وجاءت الفروق لصالح الإناث. کما بينت النتائج أن طلبة الجامعات أکثر ميلا للمواجهة عن الانسحاب في مواجهة الفکر الإرهابي المتطرف، وبينت النتائج أن طلبة السنة الدراسية الأولى/ الثانية أکثر ميلا للمواجهة على طلبة السنة الثالثة/ الرابعة وأن الإناث أکثر ميلا من الذکور لمواجهة الفکر الإرهابي، وتوصي الدراسة بتکثيف الجهود وعمل المحاضرات والندوات من قبل الجامعات مع الجهات المختصة لتوعية الشباب بالفکر الإرهابي، وکيفية التصدي له. الکلمات المفتاحية: الأساليب المواجهة، الفکر الإرهابي، الجامعات الأردنية. Abstract The study aimed at identifying the level of Jordanian university students awareness to methods of confronting the danger of terroristic ideology pursuant to the type of university, academic year and gender through their perspective. To achieve the objectives of the study, the tool of methods of confronting terroristic ideology, which was developed by the researchers, was used. The tool consisted of (23) items and was applied upon a sample of (292) student: (125)males and (167) males who were chosen following the random method, and the descriptive correlative approach was used. The results of the study showed that the level of the Jordanian university students awareness to the methods of confronting the danger of terroristic ideology was medium, as item (1) which states, Control should be placed on the media programs which promote terroristic actions by radicalist took the first rank, while item (2) which states, (The different interpretations of the holy Quran Verses and the prophetic Habit allow the spread of extremism came in the last rank. The level of university student’s awareness to the methods of confronting the danger of terroristic ideology was in average level. The results also showed the absence of statistically significant differences due to the type of university, the non – existence of statistically significant differences due to the academic year and the existence of statistically significant differences due to gender where the differences came in favor of the females. The results also indicated that university students are more inclined to confrontation then withdrawal in the face of the radical terroristic ideology. The results pointed out that the first / second academic years students are more liable to confrontation then the students of third / fourth years, and that the females are more inclined to confrontation than males with statistically significant differences. The study recommends intensifying efforts of holding lectures and seminars by universities together with the competent outhorities to enlighten the youth about terrorism and methods of its confrontation. Key words: methods of confrontation, terroristic ideology Jordanian universities

保護者のかかわりと大学生のキャリア意識―保護者の就職活動への関心度と、学生の満足度に注目して―

保護者のかかわりと大学生のキャリア意識―保護者の就職活動への関心度と、学生の満足度に注目して―

Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Sosyal Medya Kullanımı ve Cinsel Yolla Bulaşan Hastalıklarla İlgili Farkındalıkları

Amaç: Bu çalışma da üniversite öğrencilerinin HIV/AIDS ve cinsel yolla bulaşan hastalıklarla ilgili farkındalıkları ve bilgi kaynakları araştırılması amaçlanmıştır.Yöntem: Etik ve yasal izinler sonrasında bir devlet üniversitesinin farklı fakülteleri ve bölümlerindeki öğrencilerine yüz yüze tanımlayıcı kesitsel bir anket çalışması uygulandı. Anket ile elde edilen verilerin değerlendirilmesinde SPSS paket programı kullanıldı.Bulgular: Toplam 452 üniversite öğrencisinin katıldığı çalışmamızda katılımcıların % 70.4’ü kadın, % 26.6’sı erkek olup yaş ortalaması 20.9±3.3’dür. Katılımcıların % 6.8’i sosyal medyayı hiç kullanmadığını, % 55.3’ü ise aktif şekilde kullandığını belirtmiştir. En çok kullanılan sosyal medya platformlarının sırasıyla Instagram, Facebook ve Twitter (%79.9, %70.1 ve %44.9) olduğu belirlenmiştir. Öğrencilerin sosyal medya aracılığı ile karşı cinsten arkadaş bulma oranı %81.8 olarak saptanmıştır. Öğrencilerin %81.6’nın sosyal medya ve internet kullanımlarında cinsel içerikli paylaşımlar ve cinsel içerikli haber ve reklamlardan rahatsız olduklarını belirlenmiştir. Öğrencilerin %63.5’nin üniversite mediko-sosyal merkezinde cinsel yolla bulaşan hastalıklar ile ilgili bir danışmanlık birimi veya poliklinik kurulmasını istedikleri belirlenmiştir. Cinsel konularda en güvenilir bilgilerin öğrencilerin %65.7’i sağlık çalışanlarından, % 61.3’ü konferans ve eğitim programlarından alınacağını belirttiği görülmüştür. Ancak öğrencilerin tamamında HIV/AIDS ve cinsel yolla bulaşan hastalıklar ile ilgili riskli davranışlar, bulaşma yolları ve korunma yolları sorularına da beklenen doğru yanıt alma oranlarının çok düşük kaldığı belirlenmiştir.Sonuç: Öğrencilerin cinsel konularda en güvenilir bilgiyi sağlık çalışanları ve eğitim programlarından elde edebilecekleri fikrinde olduklarından yola çıkarak üniversitenin mediko-sosyal merkezinde öğrencilerin “cinsel yolla bulaşan hastalıklar, cinsel sorunlar, sorumlu ve güvenli cinsel davranış gibi…” sorunlarını danışabilecekleri danışmanlık birimi ya da eğitim programları planlanması ihtiyacı olduğu belirlenmiştir.

Cross-Cultural Distance Learning Project for Promoting English Language Proficiency and Cultural Awareness of University Students in Korea

Cross-Cultural Distance Learning Project for Promoting English Language Proficiency and Cultural Awareness of University Students in Korea

Influence of Happiness and Ego-Resilience on Department Satisfaction in College Students

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of college students on their own happiness, creativity/personality and ego-resilience, the correlations of the three factors and the influence of creativity/personality and empowerment on happiness. It’s basically meant to shed light on the variables positively affecting the happiness of college students and to give some suggestions on how to boost these variables. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The subjects in this study were 382 randomly selected students at a college located in the city of Busan. A statistical package Statastical Package for the Software Sciences (SPSS) WIN 23.0 was employed, and statistical data on mean, standard deviation and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were obtained to determine the happiness, ego-resilience and department satisfaction of the college students. Besides, stepwise multiple regression analysis was made to measure relative influence. Findings: First, the college students took an above-average positive view of their own happiness, ego-resilience and department satisfaction. Second, there were significant positive correlations among their happiness, ego-resilience and department satisfaction. Third, their happiness and ego-resilience could be regarded as the variables to affect their department satisfaction, and happiness was more influential, followed by ego-resilience. Improvements/Applications: The purpose of this study was to examine the happiness, ego-resilience and department satisfaction of college students and the relationships of happiness and ego-resilience, which are usually viewed as positive variables, to department satisfaction in an effort to increase their department satisfaction. It’s basically meant to give some suggestions on how to ensure the successful adjustment of college students to their departments and how to bring positive changes to their lives.

일부 지역 대학생들의 구강보건행위와 구강보건지식도 및 식이조절과의 연관성

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate the influencing factors of oral health behavior and oral health awareness of university students by assessing oral health practice. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 500 university students in Jeonbuk from June 2 to 15, 2014. Except ten incomplete answers, 490 data were analyzed. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects, subjective oral health status (8 items), oral health knowledge (18 items), and oral health practice (22 items) by Likert 5 point scale. Results: Oral health behavior had a significant effect on smoking status (<TEX>${\beta}=-0.200$</TEX>, p<0.001), oral health knowledge (<TEX>${\beta}=-0.235$</TEX>, p<0.001), dietary control practice (<TEX>${\beta}=-0.123$</TEX>, p<0.05), and daily toothbrushing frequency (<TEX>${\beta}=-0.240$</TEX>, p<0.001). With respect to factors influencing oral health knowledge, significant effect was found in oral health behavior (<TEX>${\beta}=0.258$</TEX>, p<0.001), dietary control awareness (<TEX>${\beta}=0.208$</TEX>, p<0.001), and dietary control practice (<TEX>${\beta}=-0.136$</TEX>, p<0.05). Conclusions: Oral health knowledge of university students is an important factor to cause a change in the behavior of oral health practice. Consequently, oral health education is essential to university students. In order to help improve the oral health, more customized and organized oral health programs will be necessary and it will encourage changes in university students oral health practices.

Behaviors on Scalp and Hair Care of College Students

This paper aims to identify the difference in awareness of scalp and hair, interest in hair, dietary habits and hair care behaviors depending on demographic features (gender, sleep habits, diet, daily habits and interest in health) and the difference of scalp features by gender with college students in Gwangju. To this end, the questionnaires were collected from students at 4-year colleges in Gwangju. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed from March 20 to April 15, 2015 and 396 questionnaires were used for analysis; 4 questionnaires with missing values were not included in the data analysis. Data were analyzed using SPSS for Windows 18.0 statistics package. Frequency analysis, factor analysis, Cronbach s Alpha analysis, t-test and F-test were executed. A Duncan test was used for a posterior test. The analysis results are summarized as follows. The scalp and hair care behaviors of college students were classified into 4 factors: awareness of scalp, interest in hair, dietary habits and hair care behaviors, and scalp and hair care behaviors depending on demographic features (gender, sleep habits, diet, daily habits, interest in health) were statistically significant in part. The analysis results indicated the awareness of college students on hair and scalp care and the problems in such cares. For keeping healthy and beautiful hair and improving hair on the basis of the analysis results, it is required to make college students recognize the importance of scalp and hair care and effective care method by education on the proper life style and care and scalp and hair care for enabling them to easily care scalp and hair by themselves. The following is the proposal on the effective scalp and hair care methods for college students. At first, it is necessary to select the products suitable for each one s scalp and hair, use after reading the instructions and cautions on the hair care products and clean hair using proper shampooing method and water at proper temperature. Next, it is required to eliminate dirt and waste from scalp and hair before shampooing and properly brush hair for accelerating blood circulation and eliminating hair in telogen. It is also necessary to massage using the hair care products.