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. 2020 Nov 24;10:20459. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77470-8

Table 2.

Gender differences and distribution of means, standard deviation, standard errors, and 95% confidence intervals of age, OHIP scores before and after treatment, and NEO-FFI scores before and after treatment among the study participants (n = 50, 24 males and 26 females).

Variable Male Female F P
Mean SD SE 95% CI Mean SD SE 95% CI
Lower Upper Lower Upper
Age 27.92 8.866 1.90 24.17 32.18 27.42 7.685 1.33 24.60 30.59 .044 .834
OHIP Before 10.88 6.873 1.15 9.11 13.18 14.15 7.052 1.41 11.13 17.34 2.764 .103
OHIP After 12.25 9.275 1.96 8.95 17.32 8.12 4.803 .88 6.63 10.33 4.008 .051
N Before 20.92 6.965 1.49 17.81 24.24 20.27 6.403 1.51 16.90 23.36 .117 .733
N After 21.29 5.782 1.13 18.43 23.35 20.92 7.652 1.55 16.44 23.36 .036 .849
E Before 29.00 4.578 .95 27.29 30.97 27.00 4.891 .91 25.07 29.09 2.219 .143
E After 28.92 4.680 .92 26.94 30.71 27.96 4.762 1.05 26.35 30.36 .510 .478
O Before 23.54 4.293 .78 21.97 25.21 23.00 6.493 1.18 20.26 25.06 .119 .732
O After 22.00 3.934 .63 20.56 23.13 23.38 5.185 1.02 20.21 25.11 1.117 .296
A Before 26.29 3.759 .78 24.72 28.44 27.54 4.641 .84 25.47 29.92 1.079 .304
A After 26.58 4.106 .83 25.17 28.68 26.31 4.343 .72 24.72 27.60 .053 .819
C Before 34.92 5.469 1.06 32.53 37.09 34.81 5.485 1.01 32.57 36.76 .005 .944
C After 33.88 6.031 1.16 31.63 36.21 34.08 5.628 1.08 31.33 36.71 .015 .903

SD = Standard deviation, SE = Standard error of the mean, CI = 95% confidence intervals of the mean, OHIP = Oral Health Impact Profile score, Before = Before treatment, After = After treatment, N = Neuroticism, E = Extraversion, O = Openness, A = Agreeableness, C = Conscientiousness, F = F Statistic value using ANOVA test to compare males and females groups (degree of freedom = 1 between groups and 48 within groups), P = Probability value.