Perceptions and attitudes of dental students and dentists in South Korea toward artificial intelligence: a subgroup analysis based on professional seniority

Table 3 Analysis result of representative questions regarding AI-related perceptions, confidence, predictions, and perceived prospects according to the multivariable factors

		Perceptions			Confidence			Predictions			Perceived prospects
		High interest in AI (Q1)			Performance superiority of AI (Q6)			AI commercialization at university hospital (Q11)			High usefulness of AI (Q13)
		aOR	95% CI	p	aOR	95% CI	p	aOR	95% CI	p	aOR	95% CI	p
Position	Dental student	1.644	0.562–4.809	0.364	0.612	0.211–1.775	0.366	1.378	0.544–3.490	0.499	1.500	0.531–4.237	0.444
Position	Dentist	(ref.)
Age	≤ 30	0.769	0.266–2.222	0.627	1.878	0.647–5.452	0.246	0.720	0.286–1.812	0.486	0.794	0.284–2.226	0.662
Age	> 30	(ref.)
Sex	Male	1.605	0.856–3.012	0.140	1.785	0.869–3.669	0.115	0.703	0.391–1.264	0.239	1.037	0.539–1.994	0.914
Sex	Female	(ref.)
Residence	Seoul	0.883	0.473–1.647	0.696	0.851	0.448–1.619	0.624	1.397	0.804–2.427	0.235	1.033	0.555–1.922	0.918
Residence	Other areas	(ref.)
Self-reported knowledge level about AI	High	24.345	5.669–104.541	< 0.001^*	0.973	0.467–2.027	0.941	1.163	0.610–2.217	0.647	1.340	0.632–2.841	0.445
Self-reported knowledge level about AI	Not high	(ref.)

AI artificial intelligence, aOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval, p p-value, ref. reference category
Logistic regression analysis; p < 0.05

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