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Table 2 Clinical status by sociodemographic characteristics

From: Epidemiological survey of early childhood caries in Cambodia

 

Any caries N (Row %)

p-value

Any Cavitated Lesions N (Row %)

p-value

Any pufa N (Row %)

p-value

d1mft Mean (SD)

p-value

d3mft Mean (SD)

p-value

Pufa Mean (SD)

p-valuea

Sex

 Male

1082 (54.5)

0.005

546 (27.5)

0.001

104 (5.2)

0.358

3.3 (4.4)

< 0.001

1.2 (2.6)

< 0.001

0.2 (0.8)

0.654

 Female

1172 (58.6)

 

646 (32.3)

 

111 (5.6)

 

3.8 (4.7)

 

1.5 (2.9)

 

0.2 (1.0)

 

Age group

  < 12-months

77 (9.8)

< 0.001

19 (2.4)

< 0.001

6 (0.8)

< 0.001

0.4 (1.7)

< 0.001

0.1 (1.0)

< 0.001

0.0 (0.7)

0.002

 12–23 months

763 (55.6)

 

269 (19.6)

 

37 (2.7)

 

2.7 (3.4)

 

0.7 (1.7)

 

0.1 (0.5)

 

 24–35 months

1068 (75.1)

 

637 (44.8)

 

107 (7.5)

 

5.1 (4.9)

 

2.0 (3.1)

 

0.2 (1.0)

 

 36–47 Months

343 (84.9)

 

265 (65.6)

 

65 (16.1)

 

7.0 (5.6)

 

3.6 (4.1)

 

0.5 (1.7)

 

Province

 Phnom Penh

626 (55.6)

0.005

387 (34.4)

< 0.001

66 (5.9)

0.307

3.7 (4.8)

0.008

1.7 (3.1)

0.018

0.1 (0.7)

0.181

 Kratie

856 (54.3)

 

418 (26.5)

 

90 (5.7)

 

3.4 (4.6)

 

1.1 (2.6)

 

0.2 (1.2)

 

 Ratanakiri

772 (60.2)

 

387 (30.2)

 

59 (4.6)

 

3.6 (4.2)

 

1.3 (2.6)

 

0.1 (0.7)

 

Total

2254 (56.6)

 

1192 (29.9)

 

215 (5.4)

 

3.5 (4.5)

 

1.3 (2.8)

 

0.2 (0.9)

 
  1. aP-values presented are χ2 tests for comparisons of proportions and the Kruskal-Wallis test for comparison of means among groups within the same column