Research Article
Evaluation of Final-Year Turkish Dental Students’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Self-Perceived Competency towards Preventive Dentistry
Table 3
Differences in the attitudes towards preventive dentistry in terms of self-perceived training/educational needs and gender (n = 126).
| | Attitudes | Self-perceived training/educational needs (n) | Mean (SD) | p value | Gender (n) | Mean (SD) | p value |
| | Costly for the dentist-beneficial to the dentist | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 4.48 ± 1.51 | 0.466 | Female (79) | 4.32 ± 1.52 | 0.585 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 4.21 ± 1.65 | Male (47) | 4.44 ± 1.66 |
| | Useless for the community-useful for the community | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 6.57 ± 1.09 | 0.039 | Female (79) | 6.37 ± 1.42 | 0.424 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 5.92 ± 1.87 | Male (47) | 6.19 ± 1.59 |
| | Nonprestigious-prestigious | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 6.16 ± 1.38 | 0.017 | Female (79) | 6.17 ± 1.14 | 0.069 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 5.47 ± 1.78 | Male (47) | 5.38 ± 2.05 |
| | Nonessential-essential | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 6.53 ± 0.99 | 0.580 | Female (79) | 6.62 ± 0.80 | 0.230 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 6.35 ± 1.33 | Male (47) | 6.19 ± 1.52 |
| | Difficult-simple | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 5.80 ± 1.55 | 0.004 | Female (79) | 5.56 ± 1.72 | 0.161 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 4.94 ± 1.88 | Male (47) | 5.25 ± 1.76 |
| | Not efficient-efficient | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 6.34 ± 0.87 | 0.146 | Female (79) | 6.39 ± 0.99 | 0.002 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 5.82 ± 1.58 | Male (47) | 5.70 ± 1.47 |
| | Unscientific-scientific | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 6.52 ± 0.82 | 0.024 | Female (79) | 6.35 ± 1.13 | 0.198 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 5.74 ± 1.71 | Male (47) | 5.95 ± 1.55 |
| | Worthless-valuable | Students reported not having educational/training needs (75) | 6.65 ± 0.76 | 0.032 | Female (79) | 6.60 ± 0.70 | 0.291 | | Students reported having educational/training needs (51) | 6.17 ± 1.39 | Male (47) | 6.21 ± 1.50 |
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SD, standard deviation. Statistical evaluation by the Mann–Whitney U test. Significant p-values are marked in bold.
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