Predictors of oral health-related quality of life in 2–5 year-old children in the South of Iran

Table 3 SEM results for examining relationships between PRECEDE model constructs

	SEM coefficient	Standard deviation	Significance level	95% confidence interval
	SEM coefficient	Standard deviation	Significance level	Low	High
Oral health behaviours
Predisposing factors	0.0457	0.0188	0.015	0.0088	0.0826
Reinforcing factors	0.2748	0.0659	0.001	0.1455	0.4041
Enabling factors	0.0750	0.0410	0.068	− 0.0054	0.1555
Oral health status
Oral health behaviours	0.1612	0.0445	0.001	0.07196	0.2504
OHRQoL
Oral health status	− 0.9714	0.2349	0.001	− 1.431	− 0.5109
Covariance for predisposing and reinforcing factors	1.025	1.090	0.347	− 1.111	3.162
Covariance for predisposing and enabling factors	2.917	1.763	0.098	− 0.539	6.373
Covariance for reinforcing and enabling factors	4.601	0.628	0.001	3.369	5.833

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