Research Article
Socioeconomic Disparities in Iranians’ Preferences toward Dental Care Services: A Population-Based Survey
Table 2
Participant’s preferences for dental settings according to their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
| | Where do you prefer to get dental services? | Private office | Private clinics | Charity clinics | Organization clinics | Public health centers | University educational clinics | combination of all | Total | Value (chi-square#) | | Frequency (%) | 698 (50.6%) | 162 (11.7%) | 187 (13.5%) | 143 (10.3%) | 65 (4.7%) | 35 (2.5%) | 107 (7.7%) | 1379 (100%) |
| | Age rang | | | | | | | | | < 0.0001 | | <30 | 50.6% | 16.2% | 13.3% | 7.0% | 5.8% | 2.1% | 4.8% | 100% (413) | | 30–45 | 50.4% | 10.5% | 14.4% | 10.2% | 4.2% | 2.2% | 7.7% | 100% (567) | | 45–60 | 42.9% | 10.7% | 14.0% | 13.6% | 4.5% | 2.0% | 11.9% | 100% (242) | | >60 | 59.5% | 3.5% | 8.5% | 13.4% | 4.2% | 4.9% | 5.6% | 100% (141) |
| | Social class in the city | | | | | | | | | < 0.0001 | | Affluent | 65.8% | 7.7% | 9.4% | 8.9% | 4.1% | 4.1% | 11.5% | 100% (337) | | Middle | 51.8% | 13.0% | 11.9% | 11.5% | 3.4% | 2.0% | 6.0% | 100% (527) | | Disadvantage | 41.4% | 13.6% | 18.9% | 10.7% | 7.2% | 1.7% | 6.1% | 100% (454) |
| | Insurance | | | | | | | | | < 0.0001 | | Yes | 50.3% | 10.5% | 12.5% | 11.1% | 4.5% | 2.7% | 8.2% | 100% (1238) | | No | 46.45 | 20.9% | 20.3% | 2.6% | 5.9% | 0.7% | 3.3% | 100% (153) |
| | Dental insurance | | | | | | | | | < 0.0001 | | Yes | 48.9% | 10.0% | 7.8% | 17.5% | 6.7% | 1.9% | 7.2% | 100% (630) | | No | 51.7% | 10.4% | 14.7% | 7.8% | 3.0% | 2.8% | 9.7% | 100% (538) | | Unknown | 45.6% | 12.1% | 17.0% | 8.7% | 6.3% | 3.4% | 6.8% | 100% (206) |
| | Type of insurance | | | | | | | | | 0.003 | | Public | 47.5% | 10.9% | 13.7% | 11.5% | 4.6% | 3.1% | 8.4% | 100% (888) | | Private | 61.8% | 9.9% | 5.4% | 11.3% | 3.9% | 0.9% | 6.4% | 100% (202) |
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