A longitudinal analysis of unmet need for oral treatment in a national sample of medical HIV patients.
prospective_cohort · Level II
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 15623862.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1449854.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
This longitudinal study examines perceived unmet dental need in a nationally representative probability sample of HIV-infected persons in medical care. A logistic regression analysis modeled the relationship between unmet need and explanatory variables. We estimate that 40% of HIV/AIDS patients report an unmet need associated with being male, being unemployed, injecting drugs, being heterosexual, lacking dental insurance, and having less education. Disparities in unmet need are related to socioeconomic status rather than to disease stage or ethnicity.
Medical subject headings
- Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
- Dental Care
- HIV Infections
- Oral Health