Table 5: Spearman rank correlations of children’s oral health-related quality of life (Gr-ECOHIS score) with parents’ dental knowledge, OHRQoL (OHIP-14 index) severity of impacts, functional health literacy screener, and children’s dental caries burden (decayed, missing due to caries and restored teeth index) among the 176 study parent-child dyads.
|
Entire scale |
Child domain |
Family domain |
|
rho |
P |
rho |
P |
rho |
P |
| Oral health literacy (GrOHL-20 index) |
-0.05 |
0.52 |
-0.08 |
0.33 |
-0.06 |
0.47 |
| Functional health literacy index |
-0.23 |
0.004 |
-0.22 |
0.006 |
-0.19 |
0.02 |
| Dental knowledge index |
-0.16 |
0.05 |
-0.16 |
0.04 |
-0.11 |
0.16 |
| Oral health-related quality of life (OHIP severity index) |
0.29 |
0.0003 |
0.23 |
0.004 |
0.25 |
0.002 |
| Dental caries burden (dmft index) |
0.62 |
<0.0005†
|
0.43 |
<0.0005†
|
0.69 |
<0.0005†
|
†statistically significant after Bonferroni correction for study-wide multiple testing (31 independent tests).