Correlates of past year dental health visits: findings from the Indiana black men's health study.

Objectives: To examine the role of social support and additional predisposing, enabling and need factors that may be associated with past year dental visits among adult Black men.

Methods: Data came from a 2011 study of 1,444 Black men from 12 Indiana counties. Based on Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Service Utilization, we conducted multivariable logistic regression analyses examining predisposing (age, sex, marital status, education), enabling (income, employment, health insurance, place of sick care, social support) and need factors (self-reported smoking status, health status, mental health days, and fruit and vegetable consumption).