Affiliations: Human Life and Health Sciences, Division of Arts and Sciences, The School of Graduate Studies, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Fukiko Kobayashi, Human Life and Health Sciences, Division of Arts and Sciences, The School of Graduate Studies, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan. E-mail:foo.kob@gmail
Abstract: The main stakeholders in oral risk management are
``Ordinary people living their daily lives'', (``seikatsusya'' in Japanese),
and dentists. The mutual awareness and understanding of oral risk management
are supposed to be the indispensable bases to improve dental and oral health
treatment quality. This study aims to examine their views of oral health and
oral risk management to generate their mutual awareness and understanding. The authors conducted interviews with seikatsusya and dentists. We analyzed
all their narratives with KeyGraph (which is a text mining tool), extracted
the keywords, and enumerated the key concepts. Then, we arranged these key
concepts by KJ method or affinity diagram, which is a brainstorming tool for
organizing a large number of ideas into their natural relationships. Through this analysis, the authors obtained the similarities and differences
between the views of oral health and oral risk management of Japanese
seikatsusyas and those of dentists. It is probable that taking notice of
these similarities and differences contributes to better oral risk
communication and management. In addition, this study revealed that it is
feasible to apply a combination of KeyGraph and the KJ method.
