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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

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Table 1
Univariate comparisons of dental professionals working in Trinidad & Tobago, inNew Zealand and in the UK

New Zealand (n = 502)
 Trinidad & Tobago (n = 38)
 United Kingdom (n = 221)
Age1



Mean (sd)
 47.70a (8.80)
 38.76b (6.09)
 45.35c (7.69)
 F = 28.36
p < 0.001
Career Break



Yes
 412 (82%)
 18 (47%) *
 168 (76%)
 Chi2 = 26.9
No
 89 (18%)
 20 (53%) *
 53 (24%)
 p < 0.001
Do you feel a valued member of staff?



All the time or most of the time
 208 (41%) *
 24 (63%)
 151 (68%)
 Chi2 = 48.65
Some of the time, seldom or never
 299 (59%) *
 14 (37%)
 70 (32%)
 p < 0.001
Career Satisfaction2




Mean (SD)
 7.13 (1.95)d
 5.21 (2.35)e
 7.34 (1.94)d
 Kruskall-Wallis Chi2 = 30.5
Median
 8
 5
 8
 p < 0.001
1 Means with different superscripts are significantly different (post-hoc Scheffe test)
2 Means with different superscripts are significantly different (post-hoc Mann Whitney U tests)
* For Chi-square analysis, these cells have the largest corrected residuals suggesting that these cells make the largest contribution to the Chi-square value.

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Table 2
Results of logistic regression analysis predicting career satisfaction (dichotomised around the median value (categories 1 to 7 inclusive versus 8 to 10 inclusive) as the dependent variable
Variables included in the analysis
 Beta coefficient
 Standard error
 P
 Exp(B)
 95% CI of Exp(B)
Country = New Zealand (Comparison=all other participants)
 0.67
 0.21
 <0.001
 2.60
 1.92 – 3.52
Country=Trinidad & Tobago (Comparison=all other participants)
 -1.95
 0.47
 <0.001
 0.14
 0.06 – 0.36
Feeling a Valued member of dental team
(Most or all the time vs all other participants)
 1.49
 0.20
 <0.001
 4.45
 3.00 – 6.59
Log-likelihood -945.8; model Chi-square = 83.48 (p < 0.001)

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