Health insurance is associated with dental care use among university students in Washington State.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The goal of this study was to examine the association of health insurance and preventive dental care use among university students.

Methods

This secondary analysis of cross-sectional data focused on students at University of Washington in Washington state (WA) who completed a health insurance survey in 2017 (n = 3768). The exposure was health insurance (private insurance in WA [reference group], not insured, Medicaid or Medicare [public insurance], university insurance, private insurance not in WA, other) and the outcome was receiving a dental cleaning in the past 6 months. Logistic regression was used to generate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI) adjusted for confounders.

Results

About 5% of university students did not have health insurance and

SUBMITTER: Hill CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9843838 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature