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

Table 2

Sample characteristics.

	All 756 (100)^a	Boy 389 (51.45)^a	Girl 367 (48.54)^a	P
Child age (year)				0.975^b
4	53 (7.0)^a	27 (50.1)^a	26 (49.1)^a
5	185 (24.5)^a	95 (51.4)^a	90 (48.6)^a
6	405 (53.6)^a	209 (51.6)^a	196 (48.4)^a
7	113 (14.9)^a	58 (51.3)^a	55 (48.7)^a
All	5.76 (0.78)^d	5.76 (0.77)^d	5.76 (0.79)^d	<0.001^b
Mother education (year)				0.650^c
0–12	465 (61.5)	243 (62.4)	220 (60)
13 and above	291 (38.5)	146 (37.6)	147 (40)
M (SD)^d	12.43 (3.56)	12.24 (3.64)	12.63 (3.45)
Mother job				0.650^c
Unemployed	587 (77.6)	307 (78.9)	280 (76.3)
Employed at home	20 (2.6)	9 (2.3)	11 (3)
Employed out of home	149 (19.7)	73 (18.8)	76 (20.7)
FAS^e (item)				0.002^c
Low (5–10)	255 (33.7)	148 (38)	107 (29.2)
Middle (11–13)	336 (44.4)	149 (38.3)	187 (51)
High (14 and above)	165 (21.8)	92 (23.7)	73 (19.9)
dmft index^f	4 (2–8)^f	4 (2–9)^f	5 (2–8)^f	<0.001^b
Dental decay free^a	115 (15.2)^a	67 (17.2)^a	48 (13.1)^a

^aNumber (percentage), ^bP-value < 0.05; independent sample t test, ^cP-value < 0.05; Chi-square test, ^dMean (standard deviation), ^eFamily Affluence Scale, ^fMedian (25th–75th).