Evaluation of Final-Year Turkish Dental Students’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Self-Perceived Competency towards Preventive Dentistry

Table 5

Predictors of caries-preventive practice of final-year dental students in stepwise multiple linear regression analysis.

Variable	B	SE	β	p value
Self-perceived competency	0.214	0.095	0.175	0.026
Attitudes towards preventive dentistry	0.283	0.059	0.395	<0.001
PPKS	0.184	0.083	0.185	0.028

B, unstandardized regression coefficient; SE, standard error; β, standardized regression coefficient; PPKS, the Professional Preventive Knowledge Scale. Significant p-values are marked in bold.