Table 1.

Bivariate differences between participants who have seen a dentist/past year and those who have not

	Overall% or Mean	SD	Have Seen a Dentist/Past Year		Have Not Seen Dent. in Past Yr.		Test Statistic1
			N	Mean/Prop.	N	Mean/Prop.
Ego Dental Health Service Utilizat.
Dental Treatment (Ever)	70.21 %	0.46	137	59.31 %	94	40.69 %	***
Ego Sociodemographics
Female	62.95 %	0.48	90	43.06 %	119	56.94 %
Age	36.26	12.20	134	35.51	195	36.77
Education (HS Grad)	42.17 %	0.49	78	55.71 %	62	44.29 %	***
Married	62.65 %	0.48	88	64.23 %	112	62.57 %
Years in US (logged)	2.70	0.57	136	2.74	195	2.67
Dental Insurance	35.56 %	0.48	77	65.81 %	40	34.19 %	***
Ego Oral Health Status/Attitudes
Good/V.Good/Ex. Teeth/Gums	35.54 %	0.48	63	53.39 %	55	46.61 %	**
Dental fatalism	4.13	1.24	137	3.97	178	4.24	*
Oral Health Behaviors:
Low	35.11 %	0.48	41	36.61 %	71	63.39 %
Med.	31.97 %	0.47	41	40.20 %	61	59.80 %
High	32.92 %	0.47	49	46.67 %	56	53.33 %
Network Characteristics
Network Size [0 – 6+]	3.71	1.48	137	4.00	195	3.51	**
Mean Network Closeness [1 – 3]	2.83	0.35	136	2.80	195	2.85
Prop. Dental Visit/Yr.	61.28 %	41.92	137	70.43 %	195	54.85 %	***
Dental Health Knowledge:
Low	34.26 %	0.48	34	30.63 %	77	69.37 %	**
Med.	37.04 %	0.48	54	45.00 %	66	55.00 %
High	28.70 %	0.45	48	51.61 %	45	48.39 %	*
Mean Talk Acute Problems [1 – 4]	2.46	0.97	134	2.46	185	2.46
Mean Hassles Dent. Issues [1 – 4]	2.41	0.91	134	2.33	189	2.46
N (of total 332)	316		137	43.35	179	56.65

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.001

¹Test statistics examined include the Wicoxon-Mann-Whitney test statistic for interval or ordinal variables; Chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test are used for categorical variables.