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Laurence, Brian.
Woods, Dexter.
George, David.
Onyekwere, Onyinye.
Katz, Ralph.
Lanzkron, Sophie.
Diener-West, Marie.
Powe, Neil.
Self-perceived Loss of Control and Untreated Dental Decay in African American Adults With and Without Sickle Cell Disease
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - Volume 17, Number 3, August 2006, pp. 641-651

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Brian Laurence and Dexter Woods and David George and Onyinye Onyekwere and Ralph Katz and Sophie Lanzkron and Marie Diener-West and Neil Powe - Self-perceived Loss of Control and Untreated Dental Decay in African American Adults With and Without Sickle Cell Disease - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 17:3 Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 17.3 (2006) 641-651 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Self-perceived Loss of Control and Untreated Dental Decay in African American Adults With and Without Sickle Cell Disease Brian Laurence, DDS, PhD Dexter Woods, DDS David George, DDS Onyinye Onyekwere, MD Ralph Katz, DMD, MPH, PhD Sophie Lanzkron, MD Marie Diener-West, PhD Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA Abstract The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between self-perceived loss of control as measured by dental external locus of control summary scores, with the amount of untreated dental decay in African American adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) and African Americans adults without SCD. The sample included 102 subjects with SCD and 103 subjects without SCD matched on age, sex, and recruitment location (mean age of all subjects 35.4 years, 55.6% female). Subjects with SCD in the highest quartile for dental external locus of control summary scores had 2.58-fold (CI 1.05, 6.34) as much untreated decay as those in the lowest quartile (p<.05) in multivariable analysis using the negative binomial...