Table 2.

Logistic regression analysis of the influence of socio-professional factors on respondents’ decision to refer patients to oral medicine specialists following a diagnosis of oral candidiasis(n = 330)

Variable	P*	Exp(B)(OR)	95% CI for Exp(B)
			Lowerbound	Upperbound
Gender (male vs. female)	0.331	0.683	0.316	1.475
Year of first degree (younger†vs. older‡)	0.001	0.140	0.049	0.402
Workplace (private vs. public)	0.001	4.696	2.358	9.351
Country of first degree (Jordan vs. other)	0.855	0.919	0.371	2.279

95% CI, 95% confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

^*Calculated using the Wald chi-square test.

^†Graduated from 1991 to 2010.

^‡Graduated before 1991.

Bold values indicate statistically significant at the 0.05 probability level (two-tailed).