Table 1 Association between sex, socioeconomic status and age and prevalence and severity of caries, caries complication and oral hygiene status in children 6–16 years old resident in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Variables | Caries N = 1001 | dmft/DMFT N = 59 | Caries complications N = 59 | Oral hygiene N = 1001 | Total N = 1001 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Absent n = 942 | Present n = 59 | 1–2 n = 48 | > 3 n = 11 | Absent n = 53 | Present n = 6 | Good n = 37 | Fair n = 883 | Poor n = 81 | ||
Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | |
Sex | ||||||||||
 Male | 516 (54.8) | 33 (55.9) | 28 (58.3) | 5 (45.5) | 31 (58.5) | 2 (33.4) | 23 (61.2) | 490 (55.5) | 36 (44.4) | 549 (54.8) |
 Female | 426 (45.2) | 26 (44.1) | 20 (41.7) | 6 (54.5) | 22 (41.5) | 4 (66.6) | 14 (38.8) | 392 (44.5) | 45 (55.6) | 452 (145.2) |
p value | 0.86 | 0.51 | 0.39 | 0.11 | Â | |||||
Socioeconomic status | ||||||||||
 Low | 272 (28.9) | 12 (20.3) | 8 (16.7) | 4 (36.4) | 9 (17.0) | 3 (50.0) | 19 (51.4) | 242 (27.5) | 22 (27.2) | 284 (28.4) |
 Middle | 547 (58.1) | 39 (66.1) | 32 (66.7) | 7 (63.6) | 36 (67.9) | 3 (50.0) | 16 (43.2) | 526 (59.6) | 44 (54.3) | 586 (58.5) |
 High | 123 (13.0) | 8 (13.6) | 8 (16.6) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (15.10) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (5.4) | 114 (12.9) | 15 (18.5) | 131 (13.1) |
p value | 0.36 | 0.19 | 0.15 | 0.02* | Â | |||||
Age | ||||||||||
 6–10-year-olds | 38 (4.0) | 1 (1.7) | 1 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (10.8) | 31 (3.5) | 4 (4.9) | 39 (3.9) |
 11–16-year-olds | 904 (96.0) | 58 (58.3) | 47 (97.9) | 11 (100.0) | 52 (89.7) | 6 (100.0) | 33 (89.2) | 851 (96.5) | 77 (95.1) | 962 (96.1) |
p value | 0.72 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.07 | Â | |||||