Table 2: Parents’ sociodemographic characteristics and their children’s oral health-related quality of life (Gr-ECOHIS) estimates, among the 176 study parent-child dyads.
|
|
|
ECOHIS |
|
n or mean |
% or SD |
mean (SD) |
P* |
| Entire sample |
176 |
100 |
3.4 (5.2) |
|
|
Education (categorical) |
|
|
|
0.2 |
| high school or less |
31 |
18 |
3.8 (6.5) |
|
| technical college |
60 |
34 |
3.6 (5.5) |
|
| university |
51 |
29 |
4.0 (5.2) |
|
| graduate |
34 |
19 |
1.6 (2.7) |
|
| years (mean, SD) |
15 |
2.6 |
|
0.05 |
|
Age (years; quartiles) |
|
|
|
0.56 |
|
Q1 range: 27.6, 35.0 |
44 |
2.8 |
3.4 (5.5) |
|
|
Q2 range: 35.1, 37.5 |
44 |
0.8 |
4.0 (5.8) |
|
|
Q3 range: 37.5, 39.9 |
44 |
1.3 |
3.7 (5.7) |
|
|
Q4 range: 39.9, 56.5 |
44 |
6.5 |
2.5 (3.4) |
|
| years (mean, SD) |
38 |
4.2 |
|
0.50 |
| Marital |
|
|
|
0.60 |
| single |
2 |
1 |
6.0 (8.5) |
|
| married |
168 |
95 |
3.3 (5.1) |
|
| divorced, separated, widowed |
6 |
3 |
4.8 (7.4) |
|
| Number of children |
|
|
|
=0.0008†
|
| 1 |
54 |
31 |
1.8 (3.3) |
|
| 2 |
102 |
58 |
3.6 (5.4) |
|
| 3 or more |
20 |
11 |
6.7 (6.4) |
|
| Foreign-born |
|
|
|
0.98 |
| no |
167 |
95 |
3.4 (5.2) |
|
| yes |
9 |
5 |
3.3 (4.5) |
|
SD, standard deviation
*derived from analyses of variance (ANOVA) or linear regression
†statistically significant after Bonferroni correction for study-wide multiple testing (31 independent tests).