This study was to compare the expressed levels of career satisfaction of …

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- A comparison of career satisfaction amongst dental healthcare professionals across three health care systems: Comparison of data from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Trinidad & Tobago

Table 1 summarises the univariate comparisons of dental professionals working in New Zealand, Trinidad & Tobago and in the UK. There was a significant difference in the age of the three groups of therapists. Post Hoc Scheffe tests revealed that each of the three means was significantly different from the other means. There were significant differences between the three groups of therapists in career satisfaction, post hoc Mann Whitney U tests comparing the three groups revealed that the Trinidad & Tobago based therapists had significantly lower career satisfaction than the other two groups. There was no significant difference in the career satisfaction of dental therapists in the UK and New Zealand.

The final logistic regression analysis model is summarised in Table 2. The Cox & Snell R-square for the final model was 0.106, and the log-likelihood was -945.8. Dental therapists working in New Zealand were almost twice as likely to express high levels of career satisfaction in comparison to the other two countries, while those working in Trinidad & Tobago were less likely than individuals from the other two countries to express high career satisfaction. Finally individuals from all countries who feel a valued member of the dental team express higher levels of career satisfaction.