Table 5.
Anticipatory attitude (willingness) towards treating disadvantaged communities during CBDE.
| Characteristic | Total N = 89 N (%) |
Pre-CBDE Dental Students with Previous Community Experience Working with PLWH N = 36 N (%) |
Pre-CBDE Dental Students without Previous Community Experience Working with PLWH N = 53 N (%) |
p- Value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely Comfortable | Somewhat Comfortable | Neither Comfortable nor Uncomfortable | Somewhat Uncomfortable | Extremely Uncomfortable | Extremely Comfortable | Somewhat Comfortable | Neither Comfortable nor Uncomfortable | Uncomfortable | Extremely Uncomfortable | Extremely Comfortable | Somewhat Comfortable | Neither Comfortable nor Uncomfortable | Uncomfortable | Extremely Uncomfortable | ||
| People with low income | 52 (59.8) | 26 (29.9) | 9 (10.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 25 (69.4) | 8 (22.2) | 3 (8.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 27 (52.9) |
18 (35.3) |
6 (11.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.37 |
| PLWH | 30 (34.9) | 28 (32.6) | 20 (23.3) | 6 (7.0) | 2 (2.3) | 19 (52.8) | 9 (25.0) | 6 (16.7) | 2 (5.5) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (22.0) |
19 (38.0) |
14 (28.0) | 4 (8.0) | 2 (4.0) | 0.04 |
| People who inject drugs | 21 (24.4) | 33 (38.4) | 22 (25.6) | 6 (7.0) | 4 (4.6) | 12 (33.3) | 10 (27.8) | 10 (27.8) | 3 (8.3) | 1 (2.8) | 9 (18.0) | 24 (46.0) |
12 (24.0) | 3 (6.0) | 3 (6.0) | 0.33 |
| Homeless peolple | 33 (37.0) | 34 (38.2) | 15 (16.9) | 4 (4.5) | 3 (3.4) | 20 (55.6) | 10 (27.7) | 6 (16.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (24.5) |
24 (45.3) |
9 (16.9) | 4 (7.6) | 3 (5.7) | 0.01 |
| Mean favorable attitude score (total possible score = 20) | 15.73 ± 4.06 SD | 17.05 ± 2.8 SD | 14.80 ± 4.5 SD | 0.01 | ||||||||||||