Table 2 Dental avoidance by sociodemographic and dental service-use characteristics
From: A national cross-sectional survey of dental anxiety in the French adult population
Variables | Avoidance of dental appointments | Avoidance of dental appointments/Variables | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Pearson Chi Square: p values | ||||
N | % | N | % | |||
Occupational category | farmers | 17 | 17.7 | 79 | 82.3 | p < 0.001 |
manual workers | 31 | 19.9 | 125 | 80.1 | ||
technicians | 142 | 16.7 | 709 | 83.3 | ||
employees | 124 | 20.2 | 489 | 79.8 | ||
shopkeepers | 61 | 24.4 | 189 | 75.6 | ||
executives | 92 | 25.6 | 267 | 74.4 | ||
Urban distribution | countryside | 97 | 21.2 | 361 | 78.8 | p < 0.001 |
city > 100,000 inhabitants | 139 | 17.4 | 658 | 82.6 | ||
city < 100,000 inhabitants | 188 | 19.6 | 771 | 80.4 | ||
Paris | 79 | 18.5 | 349 | 81.5 | ||
overseas territories | 29 | 23.6 | 94 | 76.4 | ||
Number of dental appointments | more than 50 | 247 | 16.2 | 1 275 | 83.8 | p < 0.001 |
20–50 | 107 | 22.9 | 360 | 77.1 | ||
oct-20 | 47 | 35.9 | 84 | 64.1 | ||
01-oct | 18 | 30.0 | 42 | 70.0 | ||
never | 10 | 29.4 | 24 | 70.6 | ||