Barriers affecting utilisation of dental treatment and its association with

socio-economic status
Introduction
Results
Aims and objective Conclusion
• Oral health is a key The aim of our study is to compare
indicator of overall health, barriers that affect utilization of dental
treatment with socio-economic status
well-being and quality of life
Question Minimum Lower Class Middle Class P Value • Hence major Statistically
• Unfortunately acessibility to Wage Class % %
oral health service is not a % barriers to utilize significant values in
priority of every society and 1 Dental diseases are not serious 49 35 16 0.001
dental care were results clearly show
sadly so is in Pakistan. enough cost, fear of strong association
2 55 55 23
Due to busy work schedule 0.001 contracting between barriers
3 Due to unpleasant experiences of 28 12
Aims and Objectives 28 0.001 diseases and time affecting utilisation of
Materials and method dental procedure

4 I think dental care is very expensive 68 63 50 consuming dental treatment and

0.011
Study area: IIDC appointments. socio-economic status
Sample size= 500 5 Fear of dental procedures 61 59 31 0.001
Study design: Cross- sectional
Random convenience sampling 6 I've transportation difficulty 47 43 15 0.001
Ethical Approval taken from ERB Chi-Square test
Study Tool: self-structured 7 41 37 23
I think dental checkup is not 0.005 done showed that
Questionnaire. necessary Poster by
• Initial piloting was done 8 44 46 14 greater
Alternative sources of treating dental 0.001 Zehra Abid
• Both English and Urdu versions problems differences existed
distributed 9 65 61 53 Fatima Abid
Time consuming as dentists do 0.153 in opinion
• Questionnaire consisted of treatment in many appointments Komal Shehzad
Demographics, Educational / 10 54 54 47 amongst people of
Dentists do unnecessary treatment for 0.393 Alisha Siddiqui
socio economic status and sake of money minimum
questions related to barriers in 11 28 27 17 Sania Safdar
I think oral health is not part of 0.037 wage/lower class
utilising dental care general health
from those of Supervised by
• Socio economic status was 12 I'm not comfortable being treated by 41 40 13 0.001
divided into four classes dentist of opposite gender middle class . Dr Nadia Zaib
• Statistical Analysis; % and 13 I’ve fear of contracting diseases like 70 64 58 0.182
frequencies, Chi-square test HepB &C or AIDS