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. 2017 Dec 20;17:157. doi: 10.1186/s12903-017-0448-4

Table 1.

Association between implementation scales and employees’ characteristics and opinions from a dental care organization in 2015: Linear regression coefficients and 95% confidence intervals (n = 141)

Change Commitment Scale Change Efficacy Scale
Crude b [95% CI] Adjusted b$ [95%CI] Crude b [95% CI] Adjusted b$ [95%CI]
Support for dental care model 0.43*** [0.20,0.65] 0.09 [−0.16,0.33] 0.37** [0.13,0.61] −0.03 [−0.22,0.17]
Support for company’s mission 0.47*** [0.27,0.67] 0.15 [−0.09,0.38] 0.61*** [0.41,0.81] 0.20* [0.02,0.39]
Support for caries arrest treatments 0.31*** [0.19,0.44] 0.16* [0.02,0.30] 0.37*** [0.24,0.50] 0.06 [−0.05,0.17]
Organizational climate 0.79*** [0.57,1.01] 0.45** [0.16,0.75] 1.20*** [1.02,1.39] 0.80*** [0.57,1.04]
Job satisfaction scale 0.39*** [0.24,0.55] 0.09 [−0.13,0.32] 0.63*** [0.49,0.78] 0.08 [−0.10,0.26]
Job stress scale −0.08 [−0.24,0.08] 0.18 [−0.02,0.38] −0.32*** [−0.48,-0.16] 0.08 [−0.08,0.24]
Burn out −0.14* [−0.27,-0.01] 0.06 [−0.12,0.25] −0.42*** [−0.54,-0.29] −0.19* [−0.33,-0.04]
Office chaos −0.22* [−0.40,-0.05] −0.19* [−0.38,-0.01] −0.30** [−0.48,-0.11] 0.01 [−0.14,0.15]
Likelihood to leave practice −0.19*** [−0.29,-0.08] −0.06 [−0.18,0.06] −0.33*** [−0.43,-0.23] −0.08 [−0.17,0.02]
Central staff 0.33* [0.06,0.61] 0.09 [−0.17,0.34] 0.39** [0.10,0.68] 0.04 [−0.17,0.24]

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

$The adjusted models contain all variables listed in the table and age, gender, race/ethnicity