The Impact of Child Dental Caries and the Associated Factors on Child and Family Quality of Life

Table 1

Results of multivariate analysis of underlying predictors of ECOHIS and subscales.

	Total ECOHIS score			Total ECOHIS score for child domain			Total ECOHIS score for family domain
	Coefficient	95% CI^a	P^b	Coefficient	95% CI^a	P^c	Coefficient	95% CI^a	P^d
Child sex
Boy	Ref^e			Ref^e			Ref^e
Girl	−0.82	−2.18 to 0.55	0.241	−0.95	−2.18 to 0.27	0.125	0.39	0.01 to 0.77	0.047
Child age (year)
4	Ref^e			Ref^e			Ref^e
5	0.42	−2.50 to 3.35	0.777	0.18	−2.40 to 2.76	0.894	0.46	−0.36 to 1.27	0.270
6	2.43	−0.33 to 5.19	0.001	1.45	−0.99 to 3.89	0.244	0.75	−0.02 to 1.51	0.055
7	2.42	−0.74 to 5.58	0.133	1.64	−1.17 to 4.44	0.252	0.50	−0.39 to 1.38	0.271
Mothers education (year)
13 and above	Ref^e			Ref^e			Ref^e
0–12	−1.48	−3.21 to 0.25	0.094	0.71	−0.79 to 2.22	0.352	−0.92	−1.41 to −0.43	<0.001
Mother job
Unemployed	Ref^e			Ref^e			Ref^e
Employed	−0.14	−1.77 to 2.06	0.885	−0.13	−1.81 to 1.55	0.877	0.18	−0.36 to 0.72	0.521
FAS^f (item)
High (14 and above)	Ref^e			Ref^e			Ref^e
Middle (11–13)	0.71	−1.11 to 2.52	0.444	0.52	−1.06 to 2.09	0.521	0.08	−0.42 to 0.58	0.759
Low (5–10)	3.36	1.35 to 5.38	0.001	2.71	0.94 to 4.48	0.003	0.46	−0.11 to 1.03	0.111
dmft^g
Zero/none	Ref^e			Ref^e			Ref^e
One and above	9.10	6.90 to 11.30	<0.001	9.12	7.24 to 10.99	<0.001	−0.58	−1.18 to 0.03	0.035

^a95% confidence interval, ^bP-value < 0.05; multivariate analysis by quintile regression, adjusted for child age, child sex, mother education, mother job, FAS, dmft, ^cReferent group ^dMean (standard deviation), ^eRef: reference group, ^fFAS: Family Affluence Scale, ^gdmft: decayed, missing, filled teeth.