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. 2016 Mar 9;16:30. doi: 10.1186/s12903-016-0183-2

Table 5.

Participation in training courses on first aid in dental trauma and obtaining such knowledge by self-education according to different variables

Training in dental trauma Self-education
Yes N(%) No N(%) pa Yes N(%) No N(%) pa
Education level
 Secondary 11 (9.3 %) 107 (90.7 %) 80 (67.8 %) 38 (32.2 %)
 Bachelor’s degree 3 (15 %) 17 (85 %) 0.73 14 (70 %) 6 (30 %) 0.98
 Master’s degree 2 (10.5 %) 17 (89.5 %) 13 (68.4 %) 6 (31.6 %)
Location
 Village 2 (14.3 %) 12 (85.7 %) 10 (71.4 %) 4 (28.6 %)
 Town up to 20 000 1 (3.5 %) 27 (96.5 %) 0.53 24 (85.7 %) 4 (14.3 %) 0.03
 City up to 100 000 9 (12.8 %) 61 (87.2 %) 46 (65.7 %) 24 (34.3 %)
 City over 100 000 4 (9.1 %) 40 (90.9 %) 23 (52.3 %) 21 (47.7 %)
Sports class
 Yes 5 (4.9 %) 58 (95.1 %) 0.40 44 (69.8 %) 19 (30.2 %) 0.61
 No 88 (88 %) 12 (12 %) 66 (66 %) 34 (43 %)
Being a witness of tooth avulsion at work
 Yes 14 (18.9 %) 60 (81.1 %) 0.001 57 (51.8 %) 53 (48.2 %) 0.01
 No 3 (3.4 %) 86 (96.6 %) 17 (32.1 %) 36 (67.9 %)
Being a witness of dental injury outside of work
 Yes 15 (15.2 %) 84 (84.8 %) 0.01 73 (66.4 %) 37 (33.6 %) 0.03
 No 2 (3.1 %) 62 (96.9 %) 26 (49.1 %) 27 (50.9 %)
Having experience in dental injury
 Yes 17 (100 %) 0 (0 %) 0.004 83 (72.8 %) 31 (27.2 %) 0.02
 No 97 (66.4 %) 49 (33.6 %) 27 (55.1 %) 22 (44.9 %)

aChi2 test. The bold data are statistically significant