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Table 3 General and oral health status and care-seeking attitudes and their associations with oral health literacy

From: Development of a Greek Oral health literacy measurement instrument: GROHL

SD, standard deviation

 

GROHL

n

col. %

mean (SD)

P*

Entire sample

282

100

11.5 (4.0)

 

General health status

   

0.3

 Excellent

31

11

12.3 (4.3)

 

 Very good

140

50

11.3 (3.7)

 

 Good

85

30

11.2 (4.1)

 

 Fair-poor

25

9

12.5 (4.3)

 

Oral health status

   

0.6

 Excellent

8

3

12.0 (3.5)

 

 Very good

60

21

12.0 (3.4)

 

 Good

126

45

11.2 (4.0)

 

 Fair-poor

88

31

11.4 (4.3)

 

Last dental visit timing

   

0.05

 < 12 months ago

186

66

11.8 (3.7)

 

 12–23 months ago

63

22

11.5 (4.2)

 

 2–5 years ago

22

8

9.6 (4.1)

 

 > 5 years go

6

2

9.7 (5.3)

 

 don’t remember

5

2

  

Last dental visit reason

   

0.8

 routine

168

60

11.5 (3.9)

 

 restorative

64

23

11.2 (4.0)

 

 problem/pain

49

17

11.5 (4.2)

 

 don’t remember

1

0

  

Frequency of dental visits

   

0.05

 every 6 months

74

26

12.4 (3.7)

 

 every year

118

42

11.6 (3.6)

 

 every 1–2 years

40

14

11.0 (4.1)

 

 Only when there is a problem

45

16

10.5 (4.6)

 

 don’t remember

5

2

  
  1. *derived from analyses of variance (ANOVA)