Oral health, socio-economic and home environmental factors associated with general and oral-health related quality of life and convergent validity of two instruments

Table 4 Difference between the scores of AUQUEI e CPQ _11-14 for clinical and socio-environmental aspects

		TOTAL	AUQUEI		CPQ_11–14
		TOTAL	Median	p-value*	Median	p-value*
Gender	Female	290	55	p = 0.6649	18	p = 0.04
Gender	Male	225	54		13
School type	Public	363	53	p < 0.0001	23	p < 0.0001
School type	Private	152	56		6
Children lives with both biological parents	No	193	52	p = 0.0003	22	p < 0.0001
Children lives with both biological parents	Yes	322	56		12
Household overcrowding	More 1person/room	76	51	p = 0.0031	25	p < 0.0001
Household overcrowding	≤1person/room	439	55		15
Number of siblings	2or more	259	53	p = 0.0037	20	p < 0.0001
Number of siblings	≤2	256	56		10
Monthly Family income^#	≤4minimum wages	239	55	p = 0.0008	21	p < 0.0001
Monthly Family income^#	>4 minimum wages	44	59		4
Mother’s education	≤8 years	141	54	p = 0.0017	24	p < 0.0001
Mother’s education	>8 years	142	56		12
Presence of caries lesion	Yes	85	50	p < 0.0001	21	p = 0.0334
Presence of caries lesion	No	430	55		15
Orthodontic treatment need	Yes	125	56	p = 0.0736	23	p < 0.0001
Orthodontic treatment need	No	390	54		14

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