Table 4 How confident dental hygienists are that they can avoid contracting the virus SARS-CoV-2 during work by by years-professional-experience categories
From: COVID-19 pandemic and dental hygienists in Italy: a questionnaire survey
Working-experience | High prevalence area | Medium prevalence area | Low prevalence area | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1–10 years | 11–20 years | > 20 years | 1–10 years | 11–20 years | > 20 years | 1–10 years | 11–20 years | > 20 years | ||||||||||
OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | OF | % | |
Not confident | 25 | 3.73 | 20 | 4.51 | 6 | 1.99 | 8 | 3.39 | 9 | 4.09 | 10 | 3.68 | 4 | 1.76 | 9 | 3.46 | 6 | 2.48 |
Enough confident | 17 | 2.54 | 7 | 1.58 | 11 | 3.65 | 4 | 1.69 | 4 | 1.82 | 8 | 2.94 | 5 | 2.20 | 3 | 1.15 | 10 | 4.13 |
A bit confident | 167 | 24.93 | 134 | 30.25 | 99 | 32.89 | 63 | 26.69 | 69 | 31.36 | 104 | 38.24 | 54 | 23.79 | 81 | 31.15 | 67 | 27.69 |
Confident | 461 | 68.81 | 282 | 63.66 | 185 | 61.46 | 161 | 68.22 | 138 | 62.73 | 104 | 38.24 | 164 | 72.25 | 167 | 64.23 | 159 | 65.70 |
n = 1414 χ2(2) = 13.97 p = 0.03 Trend across COVID19 prevalence areas z = 1.25 p = 0.21 | n = 449 χ2(2) = 10.10 p = 0.12 Trend across COVID19 prevalence areas z = 0.48 p = 0.63 | n = 729 χ2(2) = 9.61 p = 0.14 Trend across COVID19 prevalence areas z = 0.28 p = 0.78 | ||||||||||||||||