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Table 4 Baseline demographic data stratified by complete follow-up

From: "Strong Teeth": an early-phase study to assess the feasibility of an oral health intervention delivered by dental teams to parents of young children

Baseline

Complete follow-up*

No

Yes

p test

Parent age (mean (SD))

35.67 (6.24)

34.57 (6.02)

0.600

Job group %

  

0.085

1. Modern Professional

6.7

38.1

 

2. Clerical and Intermediate Positions

46.7

19.0

 

3. Senior Managers or Administrators

13.3

4.8

 

5. Semi-routine manual and service occupations

0.0

9.5

 

6. Routine manual and service occupations

13.3

14.3

 

9. Other

20.0

4.8

 

N/A – i.e. never worked

0.0

9.5

 

dmft (mean (SD))

2.00 (4.49)

2.71 (4.54)

0.643

Decayed Teeth (mean (SD))

1.60 (4.12)

1.43 (3.06)

0.887

Plaque % (mean (SD))

33.4 (0.17)

37.0 (0.21)

0.858

  1. *To ensure a comprehensive comparison of dyads, 'complete' follow-up was defined as dyads who had participated in all three follow-up visits and for which complete plaque scores and full data sets were available (n = 21)