Table 3 Associations among sociodemographic, familiar environment and clinical condition variables with oral health- related quality of life in the overall median score of CPQ11-14, through the Poisson model for multiple regression analysis.
Variable | n | CPQ11-14 | Poisson regression | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
scores > median | Estimative (b) | SE | PR - adjusted | p | ||||
N | % | |||||||
Children's perception of their oral health | fair/poor | 166 | 124 | 74.7 | 0.1696 | 0.0371 | 1.18 | < 0.0001 |
excellent/very good/good | 349 | 130 | 37.2 | |||||
Monthly family income | ≤ 3 minimum wages | 242 | 143 | 59.1 | 0.2015 | 0.0527 | 1.22 | 0.0001 |
> 3 minimum wages | 44 | 6 | 13.6 | |||||
Gender | Female | 290 | 155 | 53.4 | 0.1108 | 0.035 | 1.12 | 0.0015 |
Male | 225 | 99 | 44.0 | |||||
Orthodontic treatment need | Yes | 125 | 80 | 64.0 | 0.1183 | 0.0382 | 1.12 | 0.0019 |
No | 390 | 174 | 44.6 | |||||
Mother's education | ≤ 8 years | 141 | 94 | 66.7 | 0.1011 | 0.0393 | 1.11 | 0.01 |
> 8 years | 142 | 52 | 36.6 | |||||
Number of siblings | 2 or more | 259 | 157 | 60.6 | 0.0813 | 0.0377 | 1.08 | 0.0312 |
< 2 | 256 | 97 | 37.9 | |||||
Household overcrowding | More than 1 person/room | 76 | 50 | 65.8 | 0.1056 | 0.0491 | 1.11 | 0.0315 |
≤ 1 person/room | 439 | 204 | 46.5 | |||||