J Clin Med Res

Journal of Clinical Medicine Research, ISSN 1918-3003 print, 1918-3011 online, Open Access

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Original Article

Volume 1, Number 1, April 2009, pages 45-49

Health Status of the Clinical Dental Students in the Jordanian Universities

Figure

Figure 1. A Histogram comparing the scores of the eight health scales among the Dental student groups in the UJ and JUST, and between them and the scores of the non-dental student groups in the two universities. PF, Physical Functioning; RP, Role Physical; BP, Bodily Pain; GH, General Health; VT, Vitality; SF, Social Functioning; RE, Role Emotional; MH, Mental Health

Tables

**Table 1.** Mean Score for all student groups for all health scales
Group	PF	RP	BP	GH	VT	SF	RE	MH
PF, Physical Functioning; RP, Role Physical; BP, Bodily Pain; GH, General Health; VT, Vitality; SF, Social Functioning; RE, Role Emotional; MH, Mental Health
UJ
4th Year	66.87	43.37	56.63	59.04	40.66	28.61	36.30	37.50
5th Year	69.62	42.69	52.69	64.23	45.77	36.92	39.81	34.81
4th-5th Year	68.07	43.07	54.90	61.32	42.91	32.26	37.84	36.32
Non-Dental	62.00	60.63	69.00	82.50	58.52	60.00	56.88	55.25
JUST
4th Year	74.02	56.13	72.55	73.04	55.88	53.92	50.00	52.70
5th Year	73.11	61.93	64.77	70.83	50.00	50.38	57.58	53.22
4th-5th Year	73.50	59.40	68.16	71.79	52.56	51.92	54.27	52.99
Non-Dental	57.03	53.61	57.81	70.04	60.74	48.44	45.51	55.66

**Table 2.** P values as determined by Tukey test between the student groups for all SF 12v2 subscales at 95% confidence interval
Student Group	PF	RP	BP	GH	VT	SF	RE	MH
PF, Physical Functioning; RP, Role Physical; BP, Bodily Pain; GH, General Health; VT, Vitality; SF, Social Functioning; RE, Role Emotional; MH, Mental Health
UJ 4th year - UJ 5th year	0.995	1	0.947	0.662	0.833	0.508	0.953	0.971
JUST 4th year - JUST 5th year	1	0.801	0.616	0.993	0.819	0.986	0.553	1
UJ dental - JUST dental	0.485	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*	0.013*	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*
UJ Dental - UJ non-dental	0.425	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*
JUST dental - JUST non-dental	0.000*	0.252	0.013*	0.913	0.061	0.782	0.026*	0.75