A short-term approach for promoting oral health of internally displaced children with PTSD: the key is improving mental health—results from a quasi-randomized trial

Table 2 Differences between PTSD children in intervention and control group according to oral (PI, GI) and mental (CPQ_11-14, CPTSD-RI) health variables pre and post program

Variable		Intervention			Control			Differences**
Variable		mean	SD	P value*	mean	SD	P value*	Differences**
PI	Pre	2.15	0.64	0.000	1.97	0.53	0.035	0.114
PI	Post	1.52	0.55	0.000	1.89	0.39	0.035	0.000**
GI	Pre	2.13	0.45	0.000	2.14	0.50	0.873	0.927
GI	Post	1.48	0.56	0.000	2.14	0.32	0.873	0.000**
CPQ_11-14	Pre	74.80	15.97	0.000	75.29	12.30	0.175	0.852
CPQ_11-14	Post	47.16	12.24	0.000	72.65	14.47	0.175	0.000**
CPTSD-RI	Pre	45.66	14.86	0.000	45.81	13.94	0.075	0.957
CPTSD-RI	Post	34.41	12.23	0.000	47.91	14.24	0.075	0.000**

PI, Plaque Index; GI, Gingival Index; CPQ_11-14, Child Perception Questionnaire age between 11 and14; CPTSD-RI, Child Posttraumatic Stress Reaction Index; SD, Standard Deviation
*Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
**Independent samples t-test

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