Impact of Social Media on Aesthetic Dentistry: General Practitioners’ Perspectives
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Setting and Ethical Approval
2.2. Study Protocol
2.3. Study Questionnaire
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Frequency and Percentage | |
---|---|---|
Age | 26–30 years | 304 (65.9%) |
31–35 years | 127 (27.5%) | |
36–40 years | 12 (2.6%) | |
46–50 years | 14 (3.0%) | |
51–55 years | 4 (0.9%) | |
Gender | Male | 199 (43.2%) |
Female | 258 (56.0%) | |
Marital Status | Married | 182 (39.5%) |
Unmarried | 279 (60.5%) | |
State | Sindh | 299 (64.9%) |
Punjab | 43 (9.3%) | |
Balochistan | 18 (3.9%) | |
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 97 (21.0%) | |
Federally Administered (Islamabad) | 4 (0.9%) | |
Years of Practice | <1 year | 76 (16.5%) |
1–5 years | 227 (49.2%) | |
6–10 years | 120 (26.0%) | |
11–24 years | 25 (5.4%) | |
25 or more years | 13 (2.8%) |
Variables | Unstandardized Coefficients | Standardized Coefficients | t | p-Value | |
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Age | B | Std. Error | Beta | ||
0.039 | 0.029 | 0.061 | 1.337 | 0.001 | |
Gender | 0.226 | 0.030 | 0.535 | 7.514 | 0.182 |
Province | 0.046 | 0.015 | 0.142 | 3.061 | 0.002 |
Years of Practice | −0.137 | 0.027 | −0.382 | −5.133 | 0.001 |
Marital status | 0.011 | 0.029 | 0.018 | 0.390 | 0.697 |
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Abbasi, M.S.; Lal, A.; Das, G.; Salman, F.; Akram, A.; Ahmed, A.R.; Maqsood, A.; Ahmed, N. Impact of Social Media on Aesthetic Dentistry: General Practitioners’ Perspectives. Healthcare 2022, 10, 2055. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10102055
Abbasi MS, Lal A, Das G, Salman F, Akram A, Ahmed AR, Maqsood A, Ahmed N. Impact of Social Media on Aesthetic Dentistry: General Practitioners’ Perspectives. Healthcare. 2022; 10(10):2055. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10102055
Chicago/Turabian StyleAbbasi, Maria Shakoor, Abhishek Lal, Gotam Das, Fatima Salman, Aisha Akram, Abdul Razzaq Ahmed, Afsheen Maqsood, and Naseer Ahmed. 2022. "Impact of Social Media on Aesthetic Dentistry: General Practitioners’ Perspectives" Healthcare 10, no. 10: 2055. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10102055
APA StyleAbbasi, M. S., Lal, A., Das, G., Salman, F., Akram, A., Ahmed, A. R., Maqsood, A., & Ahmed, N. (2022). Impact of Social Media on Aesthetic Dentistry: General Practitioners’ Perspectives. Healthcare, 10(10), 2055. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10102055