Table 3 Factors explaining mothers’ habit of sharing their spoon with their child, as assessed by means of a logistic regression model on the mothers (n = 313) of toddlers visiting two Finnish child health clinics
From: Oral health behaviors and bacterial transmission from mother to child: an explorative study
Characteristics | OR | 95 % CI | |
|---|---|---|---|
Kissing the child on the lips | No | ref. | |
Yes | 10.3 | 4.3 - 24.5 | |
Current smoking | No | ref. | |
Yes | 1.4 | 0.5 - 4.1 | |
Twice-daily tooth brushing | Yes | ref. | |
No | 2.0 | 0.9 - 4.3 | |
Age (years) | <25 | ref. | |
25-29 | 0.3 | 0.1 - 4.5 | |
30-34 | 0.3 | 0.1 - 4.9 | |
35+ | 0.1 | 0.03 - 0.6 | |
Educational level | Higher | 3.1 | 1.3 - 7.6 |
Vocational | ref. | ||
Basic | 0.7 | 0.2 - 3.0 |