Research Article
Factors Affecting Compliance of Infection Control Measures among Dental Radiographers
Table 4
The level of compliance with HH practices (N = 175).
| | Characteristics | Hand hygiene level of compliance | Value of the χ2 test
value | Poor
N (%) | Intermediate
N (%) | Excellent
N (%) |
| | Age (years) | | | | | | <30 | 53 (48.2) | 51 (46.4) | 6 (5.5) | 6.01 | | 30–39 | 16 (37.2) | 22 (51.2) | 5 (11.6) | 0.199 | | ≥40 | 13 (59.1) | 6 (27.3) | 3 (13.6) | | | Gender | | | | | | Male | 32 (51.6) | 25 (40.3) | 5 (8.1) | 0.958 | | Female | 50 (44.2) | 54 (47.8) | 9 (8.0) | 0.619 | | Educational level | | | | | | Diploma or less | 23 (47.9) | 22 (45.8) | 3 (6.3) | 0.276 | | Bachelor or higher | 59 (46.5) | 57 (44.9) | 11 (8.7) | 0.871 | | Practice type | | | | | | Private clinics | 32 (47.8) | 32 (47.8) | 3 (4.5) | 5.43 | | Academic institutions | 33 (54.1) | 23 (37.7) | 5 (8.2) | 0.246 | | Public hospital | 17 (36.2) | 24 (51.1) | 6 (12.8) | | | Years as a dental radiographer | | | | | | <5 | 27 (38.0) | 37 (52.1) | 7 (9.9) | 9.59 | | 5–10 | 38 (46.9) | 36 (44.4) | 7 (8.6) | 0.048 | | >10 | 17 (73.9) | 6 (26.1) | 0 (0.0) | | | Hours worked for week | | | | | | <30 | 17 (47.2) | 17 (47.2) | 2 (5.6) | 1.17 | | 30–40 | 46 (48.4) | 42 (44.2) | 7 (7.4) | 0.883 | | >40 | 19 (43.2) | 20 (45.5) | 5 (11.4) | | | Number of patients per day | | | | | | ≤10 | 36 (51.4) | 33 (47.1) | 1 (1.4) | 16.96 | | 11–20 | 30 (53.6) | 23 (41.1) | 3 (5.4) | 0.002 | | >20 | 16 (32.7) | 23 (46.9) | 10 (20.4) | |
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Bold values are the statistically significant differences.
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