Socioeconomic Disparities in Iranians’ Preferences toward Dental Care Services: A Population-Based Survey

Table 5

Patient preferences for dentist’s gender.

Do you prefer female or male dentists?	Female	Male	No different	Total	Value (chi-square#)
					Female participant	Male participant	Total
Frequency (%)	270 (18.5%)	306 (20.9%)	886 (60.6%)	1462 (100%)
Age range					0.95	0.21	0.98
<30	18.7%	19.6%	61.6%	100% (433)
30–45	19.1%	21.0%	59.8%	100% (580)
45–60	19.7%	21.7%	58.4%	100% (253)
>60	17.0%	21.5%	61.3%	100% (158)
Social class in the city					0.02	0.12	0.004
Affluent	15.6%	21.4%	62.9%	100% (391)
Middle	16.3%	22.7%	62.6%	100% (549)
Disadvantage	24.1%	17.9%	57.9%	100% (480)
Insurance					0.16	0.43	0.27
Yes	18.1%	21.4%	60.5%	100% (1290)
No	21.3%	16.5%	62.2%	100% (164)
Dental insurance					0.88	0.65	0.77
Yes	18.7%	22.4%	58.8%	100% (379)
No	18.7%	21.7%	59.6%	100% (552)
Unknown	19.0%	18.1%	63.0%	100% (216)
Type of insurance					0.004	0.04	< 0.0001
Public	18.4%	19.1%	62.3%	100% (920)
Private	16.0%	31.6%	52.3%	100% (212)