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Table 3 Association between subject characteristics and the perceived “inappropriateness” of scrubs as clothing for male and female doctors

From: Importance of physicians’ attire: factors influencing the impression it makes on patients, a cross-sectional study

Factor

Male doctors

Female doctors

 

OR (95% CI)

P-value

OR (95% CI)

P-value

Gender

    

 Male

1.00

 

1.00

 

 Female

0.77 (0.45–1.30)

0.33

0.67 (0.40–1.14)

0.14

Area in Japan

    

 Region 1

1.00

 

1.00

 

 Region 2

1.78 (0.99–3.21)

0.05

1.98 (1.10–3.58)

0.02

 Region 3

1.54 (0.69–3.41)

0.29

1.56 (0.70–3.47)

0.27

Age group (years)

    

 20–34

1.00

 

1.00

 

 35–49

2.11 (0.55–8.07)

0.28

1.38 (0.40–4.77)

0.61

 50–64

4.30 (1.24–14.90)

0.02

3.66 (1.22–10.98)

0.02

 65+

12.77 (3.64–44.76)

<0.01

6.91 (2.24–21.33)

<0.01

  1. The survey was conducted at five pharmacies in three regions in Japan, namely Ibaraki Prefecture (Region 1; two pharmacies), Niigata Prefecture (Region 2; two pharmacies) and Tokyo (Region 3; one pharmacy).
  2. In this analysis, scrub styles were divided into an “inappropriate” group (= 1) based on Likert scores of 1–2 and into an “appropriate” group (= 0) based on scores of 3–5, with these groups being defined as the dependent variables in binomial logistic regression analysis. The independent variables were gender, age group and region. The reference groups for the individual factors were male gender, age <35 years (younger group) and Region 1.
  3. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval.
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