Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Subjects
2.2. Measurement
2.3. Statistical Analyses
2.4. Ethical Statement
3. Results
3.1. Distribution of Participant
3.2. Family Environment and Children’s Caries
3.3. Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Caries among the Low Economic Group
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Contents | n/Mean | %/SD |
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Guardian | |||
Father | 121 | 11.5 | |
Mother | 929 | 88.2 | |
Grandmother | 3 | 0.3 | |
Guardians’ SOC | 15.1 | 3.2 | |
Father | 15.7 | 2.9 | |
Mother | 15.0 | 3.3 | |
Grandmothers | 16.7 | 4.2 | |
Equivalent Annual Income | < 1.32 million yen (poverty line a) | 82 | 7.8 |
Educational Attainment | Low for both parent (˂ college) | 367 | 36.4 |
High for mother and low for father | 159 | 15.8 | |
High for father and low for mother | 166 | 16.5 | |
High for both parents (≥ college) | 317 | 31.4 | |
Marital Status | Married | 908 | 86.1 |
Single parent | 117 | 11.1 | |
Remarried | 30 | 2.8 | |
Age | Father | 45 | 5.5 |
Mother | 43 | 4.7 | |
Students’ DMFT | |||
12–13 years | 0.6 | 1.2 | |
14 years | 0.6 | 1.3 | |
15 years | 0.8 | 1.7 | |
DT | ≥1 | 106 | 10.0 |
MT | ≥1 | 14 | 1.3 |
FT | ≥ 1 | 237 | 22.4 |
Gender | Boys | 544 | 51.5 |
Girls | 512 | 48.5 | |
School Grade | 7th grade | 331 | 31.3 |
8th grade | 377 | 35.7 | |
9th grade | 348 | 33.0 |
Univariate | Multivariate a (N = 957) | Interaction | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | OR | 95% CI | p | OR | 95% CI | p | p | ||||
Guardian’s SOC | 1056 | 0.93 | 0.87 | 0.99 | 0.017 | 0.93 | 0.87 | 1.00 | 0.041 | 0.031 | |
Equivalent Annual Income | 12 stages (unit: 10 million yen c) | 1056 | 0.12 | 0.02 | 0.67 | 0.015 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 1.04 | 0.055 | 0.085 |
Educational Attainment | ref: Low for both parent (˂ college) | 1009 | 1 | ||||||||
High for mother and low for father | 0.92 | 0.52 | 1.63 | 0.785 | 1.03 | 0.57 | 1.86 | 0.933 | 0.011 | ||
High for father and low for mother | 0.73 | 0.40 | 1.32 | 0.296 | 0.82 | 0.44 | 1.52 | 0.526 | 0.461 | ||
High for both parents (≥ college) | 0.48 | 0.28 | 0.83 | 0.008 | 0.51 | 0.28 | 0.94 | 0.030 | 0.963 | ||
Marital Status | Married | 1055 | 1 | ||||||||
Single parent | 1.14 | 0.61 | 2.10 | 0.685 | 1.87 | 0.78 | 4.48 | 0.160 | 0.054 | ||
Remarried | 1.01 | 0.30 | 3.40 | 0.987 | 0.62 | 0.14 | 2.76 | 0.534 | 0.477 | ||
Age | Father | 982 | 1.02 | 0.98 | 1.06 | 0.351 | 1.03 | 0.99 | 1.08 | 0.175 | 0.239 |
Mother | 1027 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 1.03 | 0.626 | 0.98 | 0.92 | 1.04 | 0.497 | 0.348 | |
Interaction term SOC × Equivalent annual income | 0.129 |
Low (< 1.32 million yen, N = 44) | High (≥1.32 million yen, N = 903) | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OR | 95% CI | p | OR | 95% CI | p | ||||
Guardians’ SOC | 0.64 | 0.43 | 0.95 | 0.027 | 0.95 | 0.88 | 1.02 | 0.126 | |
Educational Attainment | ref: Low for both parent (˂ college) | 1 | 1 | ||||||
High for mother and low for father | 0.28 | 0.01 | 6.28 | 0.425 | 1.01 | 0.55 | 1.86 | 0.979 | |
High for father and low for mother | 0.40 | 0.02 | 7.75 | 0.541 | 0.85 | 0.45 | 1.61 | 0.621 | |
High for both parents (≥ college) | - | 0.50 | 0.27 | 0.91 | 0.025 | ||||
Marital Status | Married | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Single parent | 7.47 | 0.55 | 102.00 | 0.132 | 1.45 | 0.41 | 5.07 | 0.561 | |
Remarried | - | 0.77 | 0.17 | 3.42 | 0.732 | ||||
Age | Father | 0.88 | 0.68 | 1.15 | 0.348 | 1.03 | 0.98 | 1.09 | 0.175 |
Mother | 1.06 | 0.79 | 1.41 | 0.705 | 0.97 | 0.91 | 1.03 | 0.301 |
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Mizuta, A.; Aida, J.; Nakamura, M.; Ojima, T. Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1619. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051619
Mizuta A, Aida J, Nakamura M, Ojima T. Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(5):1619. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051619
Chicago/Turabian StyleMizuta, Akiko, Jun Aida, Mieko Nakamura, and Toshiyuki Ojima. 2020. "Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 5: 1619. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051619