Table 2 Characteristics of dentists who provide ECC counseling to none, some and all pregnant patients ( N =732)
From: County-level characteristics as predictors of dentists’ ECC counseling in the USA: a survey study
No.1(%) or Mean ± SD | P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All dentists n=732 | Counsels 0% n=171 | Counsels 1-99% n=338 | Counsels 100% n=223 | ||
Personal/Practice characteristics | |||||
Experience providing dental services (years) | 18.4 ± 12.2 | 21.6 ± 11.0 | 16.4 ± 12.1 | 19.0 ± 12.6 | <.001 |
Medicaid patients (%) | 11.1 ± 22.5 | 4.4 ± 14.4 | 13.1 ± 24.4 | 13.4 ± 24.0 | <.001 |
Discuss ECC with colleagues (% yes) | 331 (47.6) | 36 (22.9) | 162 (49.5) | 133 (63.0) | <.001 |
ECC brochures directly to patients (% yes) | 316 (43.2) | 43 (25.2) | 161 (47.6) | 112 (50.2) | <.001 |
The link between caries in mothers and babies is too tenuous for me to warn my patients (1=strongly agree; 5=strongly disagree) | 3.9 ± 1.0 | 3.3 ± 1.0 | 4.0 ± 1.0 | 4.3 ± 1.0 | <.001 |
It is worth my time to counsel pregnant patients about how tooth decay can affect their baby (1=strongly agree; 5=strongly disagree) | 1.8 ± 1.0 | 2.2 ± 1.0 | 1.7 ± 0.9 | 1.5 ± .9 | <.001 |
2007 Area Resource File Variables | |||||
Dentists/population rescaled | 2.7 ± 1.0 | 2.7 ± 1.0 | 2.8 ± 1.0 | 2.7 ± 1.0 | .51 |
Percent female dentists | 19.7 ± 7.5 | 19.4 ± 7.8 | 20.1 ± 7.2 | 19.4 ± 7.8 | .49 |
Percent females of childbearing age | 20.1 ± 1.4 | 20.1 ± 1.4 | 20.1 ± 1.4 | 19.9 ± 1.5 | .23 |
Percent in poverty | 13.0 ± 2.9 | 12.9 ± 2.9 | 13.1 ± 3.0 | 12.9 ± 2.9 | .73 |