Table 5 Chi-square test to investigate the relationship between (specialization and Years of experience) and knowledge of the MID.
Knowledge of the MID | p-value | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thoroughly | To a certain extent | Not at all | ||||||
Years of experience | 0–2 | 24 | 17.5 | 89 | 65.0 | 24 | 17.5 | .006* |
2–5 | 21 | 27.6 | 49 | 64.5 | 6 | 7.9 | ||
5–10 | 9 | 52.9 | 7 | 41.2 | 1 | 5.9 | ||
>10 | 9 | 40.9 | 12 | 54.5 | 1 | 4.5 | ||
Specialization | General Dentist | 32 | 19.8 | 105 | 64.8 | 25 | 15.4 | .076 |
Pediatric Dentist | 15 | 31.9 | 28 | 59.6 | 4 | 8.5 | ||
Other specializations | 16 | 37.2 | 24 | 55.8 | 3 | 7.0 |