Determinants of dental insurance status for U.S. military families

This study explores what factors influence whether active duty U.S. military personnel enroll their families in Department of Defense (DoD) or non-DoD dental insurance plans. The data come from a 26-site, cross-sectional survey of U.S. service members conducted from April 1994 to January 1995. A pre...

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Published in:Military medicine 1998-12, Vol.163 (12), p.817-819
Main Authors: CHISICK, M. C, POINDEXTER, F. R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Armed forces
Biological and medical sciences
Corporate sponsorship
Decision Making
Dental care
Dental insurance
Education
Enrollments
Ethnicity
Family - psychology
Family Characteristics
Female
Health Care Surveys
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Influence
Insurance, Dental - utilization
Logistic Models
Male
Marital status
Medical sciences
Military Dentistry
Military personnel
Military Personnel - psychology
Military Personnel - statistics & numerical data
Military service
Odds Ratio
Parents & parenting
Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology
Prevention and actions
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Regression analysis
Response rates
Single parents
Socioeconomic Factors
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
United States
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Summary:This study explores what factors influence whether active duty U.S. military personnel enroll their families in Department of Defense (DoD) or non-DoD dental insurance plans. The data come from a 26-site, cross-sectional survey of U.S. service members conducted from April 1994 to January 1995. A prestratified, randomly selected target sample of 15,915 service members yielded 12,950 respondents (81% response rate); 7,243 of these had insurance-eligible families. Age, gender, ethnicity, education, rank, marital status, branch of service, number of children, number of years of military service, and insurance status of respondents were collected on self-administered questionnaires. We performed stepwise, backward, logistic regression analysis to determine which factors influence a military family's dental insurance status. Results show that enrollment in DoD insurance is influenced by every demographic factor collected; enrollment in non-DoD insurance is influenced by fewer factors. The decision by U.S. service members to enroll their families in dental insurance plans is subject to many and complex influences.
ISSN:0026-4075
1930-613X
DOI:10.1093/milmed/163.12.817