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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: SAAD Dig. 2012 Jan;28:23–30.

Table 2.

Percentages of US dental professionals reporting anxiety of patients with mental illness (MI) as interfering with or acting as a barrier to seeking or providing dental care.

Item %
Patients with MI are more anxious about having treatment (agree/strongly agree vs. disagree/strongly disagree) 79.8**
Patients’ fear/anxiety as a barrier to providing treatment (possibly/definitely a barrier vs. not a barrier) 76.9*
Patients’ fear/anxiety as a barrier to seeking treatment (possibly/definitely a barrier vs. not a barrier) 96.8**
*

p < .01;

**

p < .001