Dental health status, dentist visiting, and dental insurance of Asian immigrants in Canada

Table 2 Odds ratios for the association between immigrant status and dental health care utilization, household aged 12 and older

	Unadjusted OR	Age-adjusted OR	Adjusted OR‡	Adjusted OR§
Visiting dentist within the last 3 years (Yes)
Canadian born residences†	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Non-Asian immigrants	0.79(0.67–0.94)**	0.83(0.69–0.98)*	0.91(0.76–1.09)	0.98(0.82–1.17)
Asian immigrants	0.53(0.43–0.64)**	0.54(0.45–0.66)**	0.59(0.48–0.73)**	0.68(0.54–0.86)**
Recent Asian immigrants	0.43(0.32–0.59)**	0.46(0.33–0.62)**	0.52(0.37–0.72)**	0.61(0.43–0.87)**
Long-term Asian immigrants	0.60(0.47–0.76)**	0.61(0.48–0.78)**	0.65(0.50–0.84)**	0.73(0.55–0.97)*
Visiting dentist more than once per year (Yes)
Canadian born residences†	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Non-Asian immigrants	0.69(0.61–0.77)**	0.69(0.61–0.77)**	0.78(0.68–0.89)**	0.84(0.73–0.96)*
Asian immigrants	0.46(0.40–0.54)**	0.46(0.40–0.54)**	0.51(0.43–0.61)**	0.59(0.49–0.71)**
Recent Asian immigrants	0.30(0.23–0.39)**	0.31(0.24–0.40)**	0.37(0.28–0.49)**	0.44(0.32–0.59)**
Long-term Asian immigrants	0.61(0.51–0.74)**	0.60(0.50–0.73)**	0.64(0.52–0.78)**	0.73(0.58–0.93)**

Data source: Combined Canadian Community Healthy Survey annual data of 2012, 2013, and 2014
†Reference group
Note: All data are weighted by the rescaled weights. The average of the rescaled weights being 1, many of the data would be fractions.
*Significantly different from Canadian born residences (P < 0.05), using bootstrap.
**Highly significant different from Canadian born residences (P < 0.01), using bootstrap.
Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio.
‡ Adjusted for age, sex, marital status, education, household income, diabetes status, smoking status, alcohol consumption and knowledge of official language.
§ Adjusted for all factors which include age, sex, marital status, official language, education, household income, diabetes status, smoking status, alcohol consumption, knowledge of official language, self-perceived dental status, dental symptoms, and dental insurance coverage.

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