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Association between Unmet Dental-Care Needs and Soldiers’ Use of Mobile Healthcare
| Category | Model 1 | Model 2 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | t | p | VIF | B | t | p | VIF | |||
| Unmet dental-care needs | 0.056 | 0.234 | 0.815 | 1.070 | −0.579 | −1.222 | 0.227 | 1.187 | ||
| Sex (ref. male) | Female | −1.149 | −1.377 | 0.171 | 1.174 | −0.265 | −0.209 | 0.835 | 1.340 | |
| Age | 0.018 | 0.335 | 0.738 | 1.148 | 0.064 | 0.878 | 0.383 | 1.346 | ||
| Educational level(ref. high school graduate below) | Attending college or higher | −0.127 | −0.490 | 0.625 | 1.075 | −0.543 | −1.415 | 0.163 | 1.259 | |
| Assigned branches(ref. combat branch) | Technical branch | 0.217 | 1.025 | 0.307 | 1.036 | 0.195 | 0.674 | 0.503 | 1.111 | |
| Administrative branch | 0.525 | 1.912 | 0.050 | 0.661 | 1.989 | 0.049 | ||||
| Special branch | −0.190 | −0.608 | 0.544 | −0.131 | −0.353 | 0.726 | ||||
| Types of duty stations (ref. major city/small to medium city) | Rural area/town/village | −0.303 | −1.520 | 0.131 | 1.059 | −0.160 | −0.586 | 0.560 | 1.200 | |
| Remote area (GOP/Isolated Area/Island/Naval Ship) | 0.179 | 0.451 | 0.653 | 0.151 | 0.262 | 0.794 | ||||
| Average weekly working hours (ref. 60 hours or less) | More than 60 hours | −0.091 | −0.387 | 0.700 | 1.143 | −0.148 | −0.453 | 0.652 | 1.308 | |
| Work hour stress (ref. none) | Normal | −0.091 | −0.348 | 0.728 | 1.065 | −0.106 | −0.292 | 0.771 | 1.219 | |
| High | 0.257 | 0.873 | 0.384 | 0.308 | 0.746 | 0.459 | ||||
| Subjective health status(ref. unhealthy) | Normal | - | - | - | - | −0.324 | −0.929 | 0.357 | 1.543 | |
| Healthy | - | - | - | - | −0.377 | −0.745 | 0.459 | |||
| Health status compared to a year ago (ref. getting worse) | Normal | - | - | - | - | −0.189 | −0.661 | 0.511 | 1.286 | |
| Getting better | - | - | - | - | 0.009 | 0.023 | 0.982 | |||
| Health status compared to peers (ref. bad) | Normal | - | - | - | - | 0.734 | 1.907 | 0.050 | 1.661 | |
| Good | - | - | - | - | 0.910 | 1.716 | 0.091 | |||
| Subjective oral health status (ref. bad) | Normal | - | - | - | - | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 1.267 | |
| Good | - | - | - | - | 0.421 | 1.126 | 0.265 | |||
| Number of dental visits(last year) (ref. 1) | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0.051 | 0.159 | 0.874 | 1.154 | |
| 3 | - | - | - | - | 0.048 | 0.128 | 0.898 | |||
| 4 | - | - | - | - | −0.642 | −1.462 | 0.149 | |||
| 5 or more | - | - | - | - | 0.384 | 0.971 | 0.335 | |||
| R-square | 0.108 | 0.331 | ||||||||
Model 1 includes demographic and occupational characteristics, while Model 2 adds health characteristics to the same variables.
VIF: variance inflation factor, GOP: General Out Post.