Table 1: Basic characteristics of the participants.
|
Total |
Men |
Women |
p-value |
|
%(n) |
%(n) |
%(n) |
|
| Gender |
|
|
|
|
| Women |
71.6 (232) |
|
|
|
| Men |
28.4 (92) |
|
|
|
| Age |
|
|
|
|
| Mean |
60.0 |
58.8 (SD 11.12) |
61.3 (SD 10.26) |
0.001^ |
| Education |
|
|
|
|
| Primary School |
13.4 (42) |
7.9 (7) |
15.6 (35) |
0.252* |
| Secondary School |
27.4 (86) |
32.6 (29) |
25.3 (57) |
|
| High School |
15.6 (49) |
13.5 (12) |
16.4 (37) |
|
| University, lower grade |
22.0 (69) |
25.8 (23) |
20.4 (46) |
|
| University, higher grade |
21.7 (68) |
20.2 (18) |
22.2 (50) |
|
| Working |
|
|
|
|
| Yes |
59.0 (128) |
71.0 (49) |
53.4 (79) |
0.014* |
| No |
41.0 (89) |
29.0 (20) |
46.6 (69) |
|
| Self-reported current health |
|
|
|
0.203* |
| Very good |
9.7 (31) |
15.4 (14) |
7.5 (17) |
|
| Good |
25.4 (81) |
26.4 (24) |
25.0 (57) |
|
| Neither good nor poor |
27.3 (87) |
23.1 (21) |
28.9 (66) |
|
| Poor |
28.5 (91) |
28.6 (26) |
28.5 (65) |
|
| Very poor |
9.1 (29) |
6.6 (6) |
10.1 (23) |
|
| Changes in health after amalgam removal |
|
0.024* |
| Worsening of health |
8.4 (26) |
7.8 (7) |
8.6 (19) |
|
| Unchanged health |
9.4 (29) |
4.4 (4) |
11.4 (25) |
|
| Improved health |
75.2 (233) |
85.6 (77) |
70.9 (156) |
|
| Don't know |
7.1 (22) |
2.2 (2) |
9.1 (20) |
|
^One-way ANOVA test.
*Pearson Chi-Square test