Table 3 Distributions of response variable “I have accepted invitation(s) from patients to be “friends”" by the characteristics of the dental undergraduate students from Finland and Malaysia
Variables | No n (%) | Yes n (%) | Total | P-value of chi-square test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | < 0.001 | |||
Finland | 201 (99.0) | 2 (1.0) | 203 (100) | |
Malaysia | 378 (85.9) | 62 (14.1) | 440 (100) | |
Age | 0.112 | |||
23 or younger | 348 (88.5) | 45 (11.5) | 393 (100) | |
24 or older | 231 (92.4) | 19 (7.6) | 250 (100) | |
Sex | 0.059 | |||
Male | 129 (86.0) | 21 (14.0) | 150 (100) | |
Female | 450 (91.3) | 43 (8.7) | 493 (100) | |
Year in dental school | 0.003 | |||
1–3 years | 329 (93.2) | 24 (6.8) | 353 (100) | |
4–5 years | 250 (86.2) | 40 (13.8) | 290 (100) | |
Hours a week using SM | 0.058 | |||
Less than 10 h | 190 (87.6) | 27 (12.4) | 217 (100) | |
11–15 h | 134 (93.7) | 9 (6.3) | 143 (100) | |
16–20 h | 113 (94.2) | 7 (5.8) | 120 (100) | |
More than 20 h | 142 (87.1) | 21 (12.9) | 163 (100) | |
Importance of communicating issues relating to dental training | 0.024 | |||
Less important | 321 (92.5) | 28 (7.5) | 347 (100) | |
Very important | 258 (87.2) | 38 (12.8) | 296 (100) | |
Total | 579 (90.0) | 64 (10.0) | 643(100) |