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All Ireland Traveller Health Study
Table 158: If you regularly take prescribed pills or medication, do you have any difficulties
reading the instructions? (Questionnaire item C1_9a)
ROI
NI
Yes
Total taking prescribed
pills in ROI
Yes
Total taking prescribed
pills in NI
Total 46.9% 522 62.6% 155
Male 51.7% 205 69.6% 69
Female 43.8% 317 57.0% 86
Under 30 34.5% 116 52.8% 53
30-44 34.1% 123 57.7% 52
45 + 57.2% 250 78.0% 50
Most respondents (72.1% in ROI and 68.8% in NI) reported having all their own teeth (i.e. no missing
teeth). Figures were comparable for both men and women. Again, there was an inverse age pattern,
with 87.2% in ROI and 82.9% in NI of those persons under 30 years of age indicating they had all their
own teeth.
Table 159: Which best describes you, with respect to your dental status?
(Questionnaire item C1_10)
No missing
teeth
Some missing
teeth
Has some
own teeth
and some
dentures
Full dentures
Neither
dentures nor
own teeth
Total ROI 72.1% 17.7% 5.7% 3.1% 1.4% 1,609
NI 68.8% 17.3% 11.6% 2.0% 0.3% 398
Male ROI 70.3% 20.6% 5.1% 2.1% 1.9% 680
NI 69.1% 14.9% 13.9% 1.5% 0.5% 194
Female ROI 73.4% 15.5% 6.1% 3.9% 1.1% 928
NI 68.6% 19.6% 9.3% 2.5% 0.0% 204
Under 30 ROI 87.2% 11.1% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 718
NI 82.9% 11.7% 3.9% 1.5% 0.0% 205
30-44 ROI 74.3% 20.6% 3.8% 0.0% 1.2% 417
NI 62.4% 21.8% 13.5% 1.5% 0.8% 133
45 + ROI 43.4% 25.3% 14.5% 12.4% 4.4% 387
NI 35.0% 26.7% 33.3% 5.0% 0.0% 60
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