Table 1.
Univariate comparisons of dental professionals working in Trinidad & Tobago, inNew Zealand and in the UK
| New Zealand (n = 502) | Trinidad & Tobago (n = 38) | United Kingdom (n = 221) | ||
| Age1 | ||||
| Mean (sd) | 47.70a (8.80) | 38.76b (6.09) | 45.35c (7.69) | F = 28.36 p < 0.001 |
| Career Break | ||||
| Yes | 412 (82%) | 18 (47%) * | 168 (76%) | Chi2 = 26.9 |
| No | 89 (18%) | 20 (53%) * | 53 (24%) | p < 0.001 |
| Do you feel a valued member of staff? | ||||
| All the time or most of the time | 208 (41%) * | 24 (63%) | 151 (68%) | Chi2 = 48.65 |
| Some of the time, seldom or never | 299 (59%) * | 14 (37%) | 70 (32%) | p < 0.001 |
| Career Satisfaction2 | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 7.13 (1.95)d | 5.21 (2.35)e | 7.34 (1.94)d | Kruskall-Wallis Chi2 = 30.5 |
| Median | 8 | 5 | 8 | p < 0.001 |
1 Means with different superscripts are significantly different (post-hoc Scheffe test)
2 Means with different superscripts are significantly different (post-hoc Mann Whitney U tests)
* For Chi-square analysis, these cells have the largest corrected residuals suggesting that these cells make the largest contribution to the Chi-square value.