ArticleCommunity dentistry and oral epidemiology2019
Factors associated with dental service use of older Korean Americans.
Article in Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Older Adults' Social Relationships and Dental Visits: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Gerodontology · 2026Pooled it
- Factors Associated with Dental Service Use Based on the Andersen Model: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- The association between predisposing, enabling and need factors and oral health care utilization among U.S. working age adults.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Observational
- Intervention to promote preventive dental care for older Korean-American Medi-Cal enrollees in Los Angeles.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Factors affecting oral and dental services` utilization among Elderly: a scoping review.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Utilization of dental care among adult populations: a scoping review of applied models.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Changes in Prevalence Over Time and Determinants of Dental Care Visits Amongst Tennessee Seniors.International dental journal · 2023Observational
- Factors of Dental Care Utilization in Foreign-Born Older Chinese Americans.Journal of dental research · 2023Article
- The impact of culture on new Asian immigrants' access to oral health care: a scoping review.Canadian journal of dental hygiene : CJDH = Journal canadien de l'hygiene dentaire : JCHD · 2023Article
- Does social support predict increased use of dental services in older men?Australian dental journal · 2022Article
- The Big Five personality traits and regularity of lifetime dental visit attendance: evidence of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Urban-Rural Disparities in Dental Services Utilization Among Adults in China's Megacities.Frontiers in oral health · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesBased on Andersen's healthcare utilization model, the present study examined factors associated with dental service use in older Korean Americans. Focus was on predisposing characteristics (age, gender, marital status, education and region), oral health needs (problems with teeth or gums and self-rated oral health) and enabling factors (dental health insurance, length of stay in the United States, acculturation and family network).
methodsUsing data from surveys with Korean Americans aged 60 or older (N = 2128), a Poisson regression model examined predictors of dental visit in the past 12 months.
findingsMore than 21% of the sample reported having a problem with teeth or gums, and over half rated their oral health as either fair or poor. Approximately 71% lacked dental health insurance. The number of dental visits in the past 12 months averaged 1.40 (SD = 1.74), with about 38% having no dental visits at all. Multivariate analyses showed that higher levels of education, the presence of a problem with teeth or gums, dental health insurance coverage, longer length of stay in the United States, and larger family networks were associated with 1.01-1.35 times higher number of dental visits.
conclusionThe findings not only confirmed the critical role of dental health insurance as a service enabler but also highlighted the importance of considering older ethnic immigrants' oral health and dental care from the perspectives of culture and family.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.