Television-based health promotion in general practice waiting rooms in London: a cross-sectional study evaluating patients’ knowledge and intentions to access dental services

Jawad, Mohammed; Ingram, Sam; Choudhury, Imran; Airebamen, Anne; Christodoulou, Kostakis; Wilson Sharma, Amanda

doi:10.1186/s12903-016-0252-6

Table 1 Sample characteristics, and prevalence and predictors of intention to contact a dentist and intention to contact another health service by sociodemographic and health variables

From: Television-based health promotion in general practice waiting rooms in London: a cross-sectional study evaluating patients’ knowledge and intentions to access dental services

Characteristic		Total sample		Knows how to contact NHS dentist ^a				Knows how to contact emergency dentist ^b				Intends to contact a dentist ^c
		N	%	N	%	AOR	95 % CI	n	%	AOR	95 % CI	n	%	AOR	95 % CI
Total				522	48.0			438	35.1			244	15.2
Age (years)	29 or under	454	21.4	111	50.0	1.00	Ref.	76	28.8	1.00	Ref.	54	15.9	1.00	Ref.
	30 to 39	566	26.7	130	45.8	0.78	0.48, 1.27	117	36.0	1.84	1.14, 2.97*	72	18.6	1.32	0.79, 2.21
	40 to 49	471	22.2	103	47.7	0.75	0.44, 1.29	105	42.9	2.11	1.27, 3.50**	44	13.2	0.59	0.32, 1.06
	50 to 59	311	14.7	80	52.3	1.02	0.57, 1.82	67	43.5	2.06	1.13, 3.74*	42	19.3	0.97	0.53, 1.79
	60 or over	321	15.1	63	47.7	1.06	0.56, 2.00	41	23.7	1.35	0.71, 2.55	24	11.1	0.64	0.30, 1.36
Gender	Female	1243	58.8	267	46.7	1.00	Ref.	218	33.6	1.00	Ref.	112	13.1	1.00	Ref.
Gender	Male	870	41.2	208	48.7	1.19	0.84, 1.70	183	36.3	1.37	0.96, 1.94	114	18.0	1.66	1.13, 2.44*
Ethnicity	White	608	28.6	164	53.4	1.00	Ref.	121	35.9	1.00	Ref.	56	13.1	1.00	Ref.
	South Asian	726	34.2	134	41.7	0.96	0.61, 1.51	126	32.1	1.11	0.70, 1.75	71	13.5	0.78	0.46, 1.34
	Black	499	23.5	120	48.8	1.06	0.66, 1.69	93	33.2	0.83	0.52, 1.33	73	21.0	1.65	0.99, 2.75
	Mixed/other	291	13.7	67	48.9	0.99	0.57, 1.74	69	44.0	1.46	0.83, 2.56	35	17.7	0.92	0.49, 1.73
Education	Primary	68	3.3	12	42.9	1.00	Ref.	5	14.3	1.00	Ref.	8	16.7	1.00	Ref.
	Secondary	392	19.4	72	41.6	0.50	0.15, 1.64	62	27.7	1.76	0.49, 6.27	28	10.6	0.36	0.12, 1.10
	College	770	37.9	208	51.9	0.75	0.24, 2.39	184	41.4	4.12	1.18, 14.36*	100	17.5	0.67	0.24, 1.91
	University	751	36.9	158	46.8	0.62	0.19, 1.99	137	35.5	4.37	1.24, 15.42*	83	15.6	0.76	0.27, 2.16
	Other	50	2.5	8	33.3	0.21	0.03, 1.33	7	25.0	1.22	0.18, 8.09	7	19.4	0.47	0.09, 2.60
Chronic disease	No	1488	72.0	343	47.9	1.00	Ref.	272	33.9	1.00	Ref.	146	13.9	1.00	Ref.
Chronic disease	Yes	580	28.1	124	47.5	1.04	0.69, 1.57	121	37.2	1.74	1.17, 2.59**	72	17.8	1.29	0.84, 2.00
Smoking status	Non-smoker	1515	70.6	324	47.9	1.00	Ref.	281	34.9	1.00	Ref.	148	13.9	1.00	Ref.
	Ex-smoker	296	13.8	56	40.3	0.58	0.34, 1.00*	45	30.4	0.60	0.35, 1.03	28	14.1	0.80	0.43, 1.51
	Smoker	336	15.7	97	51.9	1.23	0.79, 1.91	72	35.6	0.88	0.56, 1.38	48	19.0	1.20	0.74, 1.93
Visited dentist in last two years	No	559	24.7	93	28.2	1.00	Ref.	85	23.7	1.00	Ref.	61	13.8	1.00	Ref.
Visited dentist in last two years	Yes	1707	75.3	416	56.8	3.56	2.39, 5.29	344	40.0	2.57	1.72, 3.85**	175	15.5	1.34	0.85, 2.09

^a N = 746, ^b N = 882. ^c N = 1188; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01
Observations with missing data not removed prior to analysis. Model adjusted for patients’ waiting time, whether patients could hear the Life Channel, and model accounts for clustering around GP Practices

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