Table 4 |
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| Association between dentists’ opinion and independent variables | |||
| Independent variables | Dentists’ opinion(a) | p* | |
| Less favorable | More favorable | ||
| Gender, n (%) | 0.04 | ||
| Female | 30 (39.0%) | 47 (61.0%) | |
| Male | 25 (58.1%) | 18 (41.9%) | |
| Region of practice, n (%) | 0.36 | ||
| Southeast or South | 42 (43.3%) | 55 (56.7%) | |
| Midwest, North or Northeast | 13 (56.5%) | 10 (43.5%) | |
| Equipment acquisition**, n (%) | 0.65 | ||
| Yes | 37 (44.0%) | 47 (56.0%) | |
| No | 17 (48.6%) | 18 (51.4%) | |
| RA practice**, n (%) | <0.01 | ||
| Yes | 31 (36.0%) | 55 (64.0%) | |
| No | 23 (69.7%) | 10 (30.3%) | |
| Frequency of RA practice**, n (%) | <0.001 | ||
| Low | 50 (55.6%) | 40 (44.4%) | |
| High | 5 (17.9%) | 23 (82.1%) | |
| Age (yr), mean (SD) | 38.8 (8.0) | 39.2 (10.7) | 0.07 |
| Length of time since graduation (yr), mean (SD) | 15.8 (8.0) | 15.9 (10.6) | 0.06 |
(a) Dentists’ opinions were divided into two groups (cluster analysis); 7 questionnaires were excluded from this analysis because they had incomplete items in Part 2.
*Chi-Square test and Student’s t-test.
** Variables with missing data because several participants did not answer the item.
Daher et al. BMC Oral Health 2012 12:21 doi:10.1186/1472-6831-12-21
