Table 5.
Presence of a treatment protocol for patients with halitosis
| Questions | Students | Universities | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fourth Year | Fifth Year | p value | X | Y | p value | |
| 10. Is a treatment protocol present in the practice? | ||||||
| Yes | 39 (30.2%) | 39 (32.8%) | 0.667 | 43 (30.5%) | 35 (33.0%) | 0.673 |
| No | 90 (69.8%) | 80 (67.2%) | 98 (69.5%) | 71 (67.0%) | ||
| Total | 129 (100.0%) | 119 (100.0%) | 141 (100.0%) | 106 (100.0%) | ||
| 11. Would you find the presence of a treatment protocol useful? | ||||||
| Yes | 40 (38.8%) | 45 (48.9%) | 0.157 | 42 (34.1%)a | 43 (60.6%)b | < 0.001 |
| No | 63 (61.2%) | 47 (51.1%) | 81 (65.9%)a | 28 (39.4%)b | ||
| Total | 103 (100.0%) | 92 (100.0%) | 123 (100.0%) | 71 (100.0%) | ||
Superscripts (a, b) in the tables denote groups that are significantly different from each other based on post hoc tests with Bonferroni correction