Table 2.
Characteristics of dental practice stratified according to dentists’ opinions on whether it is right or wrong not to treat someone who is HIV positive.
| Discrimination |
||
|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | |
| Number of valid answers | 1009 | 45 |
| Personal experience* | ||
| Never refused to treat an HIV-infected patient | 990 (98.1%) | 38 (84.4%) |
| Refused to treat an HIV-infected patient | 19 (1.9%) | 17 (15.6%) |
| Level of fear* | ||
| No fear | 178 (17.6%) | 2 (4.4%) |
| Mild | 460 (45.6%) | 17 (37.8%) |
| Moderate | 293 (29%) | 8 (17.8%) |
| High | 69 (6.8%) | 14 (31.1%) |
| Completely frightened | 9 (0.9%) | 4 (8.9%) |
| Types of treatment** | ||
| Never treated an HIV-infected patient | 265 (26.3%) | 16 (35.6%) |
| All types of treatment required | 398 (39.45%) | 9 (20%) |
| Mainly operative dentistry | 225 (22.3%) | 11 (24.4%) |
| Mainly oral surgery | 64 (6.3%) | 7 (15.6%) |
| Mainly prosthodontics | 3 (0.3%) | 1 (2.2%) |
| Mainly orthodontics | 21 (2.1%) | 1 (2.2%) |
| Mainly periodontology | 33 (3.3%) | 0 (0%) |
*χ.
2p = 0.001; **χ
2p = 0.01.