Impact of fashion braces on oral health related quality of life: a web-based cross-sectional study

BMC Oral Health

Table 4 Results of Spearman Correlation tests for relationship between OHIP domains and age, gender, educational level, family income, smoking / shesha, frequency of brushing, noticing teeth color changes, noticing teeth movement after braces and noticing teeth color changes because of braces. Only statistically significant correlation coefficient (r) and p-values (p < 0.05) are shown

		Functional limitation	Physical pain	Psychological discomfort	Physical disability	Psychological disability	Social disability	Handicap	Total OHIP
Age	R		−0.08
Age	P value		0.01
Educational level	R	−0.08
Educational level	P-value	0.01
Family income	R		−0.07		−0.10	−0.08	− 0.06	− 0.10	−0.09
Family income	P-value		0.01		0.001	0.01	0.05	0.001	0.002
Smoking / shesha	R
Smoking / shesha	P-value
Frequency of brushing	R	0.09	0.07
Frequency of brushing	P-value	0.002	0.03
Noticing teeth color changes	R	−0.12	−0.13	−0.10	−0.11	−0.15	−0.14	−0.11	−0.19
Noticing teeth color changes	P-value	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001
Noticing teeth color changes because of braces	R			0.17
Noticing teeth color changes because of braces	P-value			0.02

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