Gender differences in the association between oral health literacy and oral health-related quality of life in older adults

Table 2 Factors associated with Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHR-QoL) (n = 114)

	Women (n = 114)				Men (n = 88)
Factors	B	SE	Odds ratio	p-values	B	SE	Odds ratio	p-values
Oral health literacy	− 0.122	0.092	0.885	0.186	0.593	0.215	1.809	0.006
Age	− 0.058	0.038	0.944	0.126	− 0.034	0.056	0.967	0.542
Instrumental activities of daily living	− 0.072	0.049	0.930	0.139	− 0.286	0.096	0.751	0.003
Nutrition	0.034	0.114	1.035	0.763	0.244	0.192	1.277	0.202
Education (ref: Elementary school)	0.824	0.754	2.281	0.274	− 0.646	0.877	0.524	0.461
Income (ref: no income)	− 1.125	0.737	0.325	0.127	0.019	0.987	1.019	0.985

Significant items in bold; Original OHRQoL score of 0 were considered to have no OHRQoL problems and coded as 1. Participants with an original score of ≥ 1 point were considered to have OHRQoL problems and were assigned a code of 0

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