Patterns and predictors of public dental service utilisation among refugees in Victoria, Australia: a latent profile and multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of the study was to explore, analyse, and describe the patterns of public dental service utilisation among the refugee populations in Victoria, Australia, and determine their predictors at the individual and contextual levels.

Methods

Data on the refugees who attended Victorian public dental services between July 2016 to June 2020 was gathered from the Dental Health Program dataset. Latent profile analysis was used to identify discrete groups among the refugee clientele with similar mean utilisation patterns across six indicator variables describing the attributes of dental services received and the site of care provision, over the study period. Multilevel multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the individual and contextual l

SUBMITTER: Veginadu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10074673 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature