Life satisfaction of Taiwanese dental graduates received residencies in the U.S.: a cross-sectional study

Fu, Martin M.; Chen, Rebecca Y.; Kao, Huan-Chen; Wang, Chi-Hsien; Chan, Hsun-Liang; Fu, Earl; Lee, Tony Szu-Hsien

doi:10.1186/s12909-020-02032-5

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Table 1 Mean and Standard Deviation (SD) of SWLS by background of 158 participants

From: Life satisfaction of Taiwanese dental graduates received residencies in the U.S.: a cross-sectional study

	Specialists / Former Residents						Current Residents
	N	%	SWLS Mean SD		F	p-value	N	%	SWLS Mean SD		F	p-value
Gender					0.095	0.995					0.916	0.346
Male	76	60.8%	4.11	0.69			9	27.3%	3.44	0.50
Female	49	39.2%	4.11	0.70			24	72.7%	3.71	0.76
Dental School Class Rank					2.182	0.094					3.868	0.020*
Top 25%	92	73.6%	4.11	0.65			24	72.7%	3.75	0.61
26 to 50%	16	12.8%	4.37	0.72			5	15.2%	3.72	0.78
51 to 75%	4	3.2%	4.45	0.64			2	6.1%	2.30	0.42
Bottom 25%	7	5.6%	3.68	0.40			1	3.0%	2.80
Missing	6	4.8%					1	3.0%
Specialty					2.293	0.063					0.305	0.872
Periodontics	54	43.2%	3.95	0.67			12	36.4%	3.73	0.82
Prosthodontics	20	16.0%	4.20	0.68			11	33.3%	3.60	0.73
Pediatric Dentistry	21	16.8%	4.05	0.75			3	9.1%	3.67	0.41
Orthodontics	14	11.2%	4.21	0.65			3	9.1%	3.80	0.72
Endodontics	16	12.8%	4.50	0.66			4	12.1%	3.30	0.62
Clinical Training in Taiwan before Residency					0.066	0.797					2.238	0.145
No	89	71.2%	4.14	0.68			22	66.7%	3.77	0.76
Yes	32	25.6%	4.11	0.61			11	33.3%	3.38	0.51
Missing	4	3.2%
U.S. DDS/DMD before Residency					0.789	0.376					0.269	0.608
No	111	88.8%	4.10	0.66			32	97.0%	3.63	0.71
Yes	11	8.8%	4.29	0.89			1	3.0%	4.00
Missing	3	2.4%
Residency Started in					4.870	0.009**					0.027	0.974
0 ~ 4 years after dental school	84	67.2%	4.19	0.65		0.029*	20	60.6%	3.66	0.69
5 ~ 9 years after dental school	33	26.4%	3.84	0.73			11	33.3%	3.60	0.81
≥10 years after dental school	7	5.6%	4.54	0.51		0.032*	2	6.1%	3.60	0.57
Missing	1	0.8%
Year Residency Started					4.098	0.008**
1976 to 1985	22	17.6%	4.36	0.77		0.013*
1986 to 1995	36	28.8%	4.23	0.61
1996 to 2005	28	22.4%	4.15	0.66		0.036*
2006 to now	39	31.2%	3.81	0.67			33	100%	3.64	0.70
Research Experience before U.S. Residency					3.023	0.085					0.320	0.576
No	81	64.8%	4.06	0.69			26	78.8%	3.60	0.70
Yes	39	31.2%	4.29	0.58			7	21.2%	3.77	0.74
Missing	5	4.0%
Private Practice Experience before U.S. Residency					7.816	0.006**					0.053	0.819
No	28	22.4%	4.41	0.54			10	30.3%	3.68	0.64
Yes	91	72.8%	4.02	0.67			23	69.7%	3.62	0.74
Missing	6	4.8%
Total	125		4.11	0.69			33		3.64	0.70

SWLS Mean Score = (Item 1 + item 2 + Item 3 + item 4 + Item 5)/5
T-tests and one way analysis of variance with post hoc Tukey HSD test were performed on all participants to compare means of two groups and more than two groups respectively. Missing values were deleted from analysis. *p < 0.05; **p < 0 .01

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