Research Article
Factors Affecting Compliance of Infection Control Measures among Dental Radiographers
Table 3
The level of compliance with vaccination practices (N = 175).
| | Characteristics | Vaccination level of compliance | Value of the χ2 test
value | Poor
N (%) | Intermediate
N (%) | Excellent
N (%) |
| | Age (years) | | | | | | <30 | 50 (45.5) | 26 (23.6) | 34 (30.9) | 14.66 | | 30–39 | 18 (41.9) | 6 (14.0) | 19 (44.2) | 0.005 | | ≥40 | 4 (18.2) | 2 (9.1) | 16 (72.7) | | | Gender | | | | | | Male | 20 (32.3) | 9 (14.5) | 33 (53.2) | 7.67 | | Female | 52 (46.0) | 25 (22.1) | 36 (31.9) | 0.022 | | Educational level | | | | | | Diploma or less | 20 (41.7) | 9 (18.8) | 19 (39.6) | 0.020 | | Bachelor or higher | 52 (40.9) | 25 (19.7) | 50 (39.4) | 0.990 | | Practice type | | | | | | Private clinics | 33 (49.3) | 6 (9.0) | 28 (41.8) | 17.46 | | Academic institutions | 20 (32.8) | 22 (36.1) | 19 (31.1) | 0.002 | | Public hospital | 19 (40.4) | 6 (12.8) | 22 (46.8) | | | Years as a dental radiographer | | | | | | <5 | 32 (45.1) | 14 (19.7) | 25 (35.2) | 1.88 | | 5–10 | 32 (39.5) | 14 (17.3) | 35 (43.2) | 0.758 | | >10 | 8 (34.8) | 6 (26.1) | 9 (39.1) | | | Hours worked for week | | | | | | <30 | 14 (38.9) | 10 (27.8) | 12 (33.3) | 6.16 | | 30–40 | 35 (36.8) | 20 (21.1) | 40 (42.1) | 0.188 | | >40 | 23 (52.3) | 4 (9.1) | 17 (38.6) | | | Number of patients per day | | | | | | ≤10 | 26 (37.1) | 21 (30.0) | 23 (32.9) | 8.49 | | 11–20 | 24 (42.9) | 7 (12.5) | 25 (44.6) | 0.075 | | >20 | 22 (44.9) | 6 (12.2) | 21 (42.9) | |
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Bold values are the statistically significant differences.
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