Dental caries status of Bulang preschool children in Southwest China

BMC Oral Health

Table 5 Relationship between dental caries experience and selected independent variables (final model of multi-factor ANCOVA)

Independent variables	Group	Beta	SE	Eta-squared	p-value
Snacking on sweets daily	Yes	0.509	0.241	0.002	0.035
	No^a
Visited a dentist within last year	Yes	1.296	0.377	0.005	0.001
	No^a
VPI		10.628	0.402	0.506	<0.001
Intercept		0.022	0.257		0.931

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