Table 3.

Logistic Regression of Sore or Bleedings Gums in the Past 6 Months on Ego and Network Characteristics.

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Ego sociodemographics
Female	1.01 (0.25)	–	–	0.83 (0.24)
Age	1.00 (0.01)	–	–	1.01 (0.01)
Education (HS Grad)	0.78 (0.20)	–	–	0.86 (0.26)
Married	1.29 (0.34)	–	–	1.17 (0.36)
Years in US (logged)	0.54 (0.12)**	–	–	0.61 (0.15)*
Ego oral health factors
Dental insurance	–	0.90 (0.24)	–	0.88 (0.26)
Currently need dental tx.	–	3.43 (1.00)***	–	2.95 (0.97)**
Dent. fatalism: Child cavities	–	1.15 (0.11)	–	1.10 (0.12)
Network characteristics
Proportion female	–	–	1.03 (0.05)	1.04 (0.05)
Mean closeness	–	–	0.84 (0.33)	0.69 (0.30)
Oral health network size	–	–	1.27 (0.09)**	1.23 (0.10)**
Mean dent. health knowl.	–	–	0.84 (0.12)	0.93 (0.15)
Freq. talk dental problems	–	–	1.54 (0.21)**	1.42 (0.21)*
N	315	296	303	277
LR χ2	11.83*	24.50***	20.53**	41.13***
Pseudo R2	0.03	0.06	0.05	0.11

Notes: Odds ratios presented, standard errors in parentheses.

^*p ≤ 0.05;

^**p ≤ 0.01;

^***p ≤ 0.001.