Table 3.
Correlation of accident occurrence with the characteristics of the studied population in scientific laboratories of the public university in Lebanon
| Characteristics | Public university (N = 220)) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-accident occurrenceN (%) 121 (55.0%) |
Accident occurrenceN (%) 99 (45.0%) |
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| Gender | Male | 31 (25.6) | 14 (14.1) | 0.044∗ |
| Female | 90 (74.4) | 85 (85.9) | ||
| Age (years) | Less than 20 | 1(0.8) | 1(1.0) | 0.364 |
| 20–30 | 61 (50.4) | 42 (42.4) | ||
| 30–40 | 33 (27.3) | 25 (25.3) | ||
| >40 | 26 (21.5) | 31 (31.3) | ||
| Educational level | Bachelor degree | 10 (8.3) | 28 (28.3) | <0.001∗ |
| Master | 68 (56.2) | 60 (60.6) | ||
| Doctorate | 43 (35.5) | 11 (11.1) | ||
| Work schedule | Full time | 82 (67.8) | 90 (90.9) | <0.001∗ |
| Part time | 39 (32.2) | 9 (9.1) | ||
| Years of experience | <10 years | 65 (53.7) | 36 (36.4) | 0.014∗ |
| >10 years | 56 (46.3) | 63 (63.6) | ||
| Function | Faculty researcher | 30 (24.8) | 7 (7.1) | <0.001∗ |
| Assistant | 39 (32.2) | 67 (67.7) | ||
| Postdoctoral fellow | 2 (1.7) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Ph.D. student | 13 (10.7) | 4 (4.0) | ||
| Master student | 34 (28.1) | 17 (17.2) | ||
| Volunteer | 3 (2.5) | 4 (4.0) | ||
∗
p-value detected by the χ2 test for categorical variables showed a significant difference between both the groups.