TABLE 2.
Participants’ characteristics, according to race or ethnicity.
| CHARACTERISTIC* | TOTAL COHORT (N = 599) | WHITE (n = 253) | AFRICAN AMERICAN (n = 126) | HISPANIC (n = 194) | OTHER (n = 25)† | P VALUE |
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| Age (Mean ± SD [Years]) (n = 594) | 28.9 ± 6.0 | 30.2 ± 6.0 | 27.0 ± 5.5 | 27.9 ± 5.9 | 31.7 ± 4.9 | < .001‡ |
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| Marital Status (n [%]) (n = 574) | < .001§ | |||||
| Married or living with partner | 493 (85.9) | 235 (94.4) | 82 (69.5) | 153 (84.1) | 23 (92.0) | |
| In a relationship | 45 (7.8) | 11 (4.4) | 20 (17.0) | 13 (7.1) | 1 (4.0) | |
| Not in a relationship | 36 (6.3) | 3 (1.2) | 16 (13.6) | 16 (8.8) | 1 (4.0) | |
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| Country of Origin (n [%]) (n = 586) | < .001§ | |||||
| United States | 388 (66.2) | 241 (96.0) | 117 (94.4) | 24 (12.8) | 6 (25.0) | |
| Mexico | 124 (21.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 124 (66.3) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Other | 74 (12.6) | 10 (4.0) | 7 (5.6) | 39 (20.9) | 18 (75.0) | |
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| Educational Attainment (n [%]) (n = 587) | < .001§ | |||||
| Eighth grade or less | 94 (16.0) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 93 (49.7) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Some high school | 58 (9.9) | 14 (5.6) | 11 (8.9) | 32 (17.1) | 1 (4.0) | |
| High school graduate | 89 (15.2) | 30 (12.0) | 25 (20.2) | 31 (16.6) | 3 (12.0) | |
| Some college | 115 (19.6) | 45 (17.9) | 54 (43.5) | 15 (8.0) | 1 (4.0) | |
| College graduate | 231 (39.4) | 161 (64.1) | 34 (27.4) | 16 (8.6) | 20 (80.0) | |
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| Annual Household Income Level ($) (n [%]) (n = 494) | < .001§ | |||||
| 10,000 or less | 73 (14.8) | 20 (8.4) | 25 (25.8) | 26 (18.4) | 2 (11.1) | |
| 10,001–30,000 | 180 (36.4) | 47 (19.7) | 38 (39.2) | 92 (65.2) | 3 (16.7) | |
| 30,001–60,000 | 90 (18.2) | 48 (20.2) | 22 (22.7) | 16 (11.3) | 4 (22.2) | |
| 60,001–80,000 | 49 (9.9) | 40 (16.8) | 5 (5.2) | 2 (1.4) | 2 (11.1) | |
| More than 80,000 | 102 (20.6) | 83 (34.9) | 7 (7.2) | 5 (3.5) | 7 (38.9) | |
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| Source of Payment for Dental Care (n [%]) (n = 491) | < .001§ | |||||
| Private insurance | 209 (42.6) | 133 (55.4) | 35 (31.5) | 28 (23.5) | 13 (61.9) | |
| Medicaid | 120 (24.4) | 41 (17.1) | 60 (54.1) | 16 (13.4) | 3 (14.3) | |
| Cash, check or credit card | 142 (28.9) | 61 (25.4) | 14 (12.6) | 63 (52.9) | 4 (19.0) | |
| Other | 20 (4.1) | 5 (2.1) | 2 (1.8) | 12 (10.1) | 1 (4.8) | |
*
Because of missing data, the numbers in the rows may not equal 599.
†
In this category, 18 participants were Asian and seven were of “other” race or ethnicity. One participant did not respond to this question.
‡
Analysis of variance (F value = 12.783, 590).
§
Fisher exact test.