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Table 7 Discriminant validity: overall and subscale scores for parents of children pufa free and children with pufa≥1

From: Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

ECOHIS

Clinical groups

  
 

Pufa = 0

Pufa≥1

p-value*

Effect size

Mean (SD)

Median

Mean (SD)

Median

  

Total scale

13.53(8.71)

12

20.88(9.63)

21

0.000

0.84

Child impact section

7.86(5.83)

6

13.77(6.00)

15

0.000

1.01

Family impact section

5.67(3.84)

6

7.12(3.71)

8

0.020

0.37

  1. Standard Deviation (SD) *Mann Whitney test