Dental Sealants: Knowledge, Value, Opinion, and Practice among Dental Professionals of Bathinda City, India

Table 4

Multiple logistic regression odd ratios (95% CI) for knowledge, value, opinion, and practice score as dependent variable among dentists.

Variables	Age (<45/>45 years)	Sex (male/female)	Qualification (BDS/MDS)	Work experience (<10/>10 years)
Knowledge	1.8 (0.5–7.1)	0.7 (0.1–3.7)	2.5 (0.4–5.0)*	0.9 (0.6–5.1)*
Value	1.3 (0.6–2.9)	1.0 (0.4–2.7)	3.7 (1.8–7.6)	1.1 (0.5–3.3)
Opinion	1.6 (0.3–7.9)	0.6 (0.1–4.8)	0.2 (0.0–1.5)	2.6 (0.3–4.9)
Practice	1.2 (0.4–2.2)	0.2 (0.1–1.9)	0.8 (0.2–1.9)*	4.4 (0.7–6.2)

Italicized category is taken as reference group.