This is a cross-sectional correlation study to examine correlation among ethics position, self-esteem, and perception of patient medical information protection in dental hygiene students and also figure out factors influencing their perception of pati...
This is a cross-sectional correlation study to examine correlation among ethics position, self-esteem, and perception of patient medical information protection in dental hygiene students and also figure out factors influencing their perception of patient medical information protection.
This paper used the structuralized questionnaire developed by modifying and complementing the EPQ(Ethics Position Questionnaire) developed by Forsyth (1980), the self-esteem measuring tool developed by Rosenburg (1986), and also the measuring tool for perception of patient medical information protection developed and used by Lee Mi-young (2004). 500 students were selected with the stratified sampling method from universities having the department of dental hygiene in Korea, and the research was performed from September 1st till November 1st, 2013 with the self-reporting method. For data analysis, SPSS 12.0 was employed, and for the consideration on the subjects, deliberation was done by IRB (IRB No : P01-201311-SB-03).
1. About ethics position in dental hygiene students, idealism position received 3.84 points, and relativism position got 3.54 points. And about the category of ethics position, higher points were gotten in situationists, absolutists, subjectivists, and exceptionists in order. Regarding idealism position in dental hygiene students, there was significant difference in satisfaction with the major (p=0.001), satisfaction with clinical training (p=0.031), and recognition on ethics codes (p=0.001). About relativistic disposition, there was significant difference in the school system (p=0.027) and the school record (p=0.011). And regarding self-esteem and perception of patient medical information protection in dental hygiene students, situationists received the highest points.
2. Self-esteem got 3.55 points out of 5, the perfect score. And there was significant difference in the grade (p=0.007), personality (p<0.001), family climate (p<0.001), monthly average income (p=0.004), school record (p<0.001), satisfaction with the major (p<0.001), satisfaction with clinical training (p<0.001), and recognition on ethics codes (p=0.010).
3. perception of patient medical information protection received 4.12 points out of 5, the perfect score, and there was significant difference in the grade (p=0.048) and satisfaction with the major (p=0.020).
4. Regarding self-esteem of dental hygiene students in the category of ethics position, there was a more higher level of difference in satisfisers than subjectivists or exceptionists. About perception of patient medical information protection, there was the lowest level of difference in exceptionists (p<0.001).
5. About the correlation among their idealism position, self-esteem, and perception of patient medical information protection, there was positive correlation among all the variables.
6. The factors influencing their perception of patient medical information protection were idealism position (β=0.204, p<0.001) and self-esteem (β=0.176, p<0.001), and this model’s corrected explanatory power was 10.4%.
Based on the results above, we can see that as idealism position and self-esteem become higher, perception of patient medical information protection gets higher, too. Therefore, this study suggests that it is needed to develop and vitalize proper programs that can enhance ethics consciousness, idealism position, and self-esteem in dental hygiene students with the education for their basic refinement and major refinement.