Periodontal status, perceived stress, diabetes mellitus and oral hygiene care on quality of life: a structural equation modelling analysis

Table 3 Direct effects for the Andersen model

Effect	ß	Bootstrap SE	Bias-corrected 95% CI	% of total effect
Predisposing Factors - Enabling	−0.01	0.06	− 0.11 / 0.09	100
Predisposing Factors - Oral Health Behaviors	−0.12	0.08	−0.26 / -0.01	_ª
Predisposing Factors - Need	0.66	0.13	0.36 / 0.77 ***	94
Predisposing Factors - Perceived Oral Outcome	−0.47	0.31	−1.01 / -0.02 *	_ª
Enabling - Need	0.18	0.01	0.04 / 0.30 *	82
Enabling - Oral Health Behaviors	−0.11	0.07	−0.22 / -0.01*	100
Enabling - Perceived Oral Outcome	0.29	0.10	0.11 / 0.42**	64
Need - Perceived Oral Outcome	0.80	0.39	0.18 / 1.40 ***	100
Oral Health Behaviors - Need	−0.38	0.08	−0.50 / -0.26 **	100
Oral Health Behaviors - Perceived Oral Outcome	0.22	0.18	−0.01 / 0.58	_ª

ß = bootstrapped standardized estimate; SE Standard Error; CI Confidence Interval
*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
_ªCould not be calculated because of suppression effect

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