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Table 2 Estimated coefficients (Ī²), and the corresponding odds ratios (OR) and p-values, of ordinal regression model for CMOHK against age, gender and school enrolled in a sample of US undergraduate students (nā€‰=ā€‰372). Threshold coefficients for ā€œGoodā€, and the parameters of the baseline level for all explanatory variables were set to zero. P-values less than 0.05 are indicated by an asterisk

From: Oral health knowledge is associated with oral health-related quality of life: a survey of first-year undergraduate students enrolled in an American university

Ā 

Estimate

(Ī²)

Standard Error

OR

p-value

Threshold coefficients

Poor

-2.63

0.26

0.07

<ā€‰0.0001*

Fair

-1.22

0.22

0.30

<ā€‰0.0001*

Good

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Age

19

---

Ā 

---

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20

-0.35

0.25

0.71

0.1681

21 or above

-1.86

0.51

0.16

0.0002*

Gender

Female

---

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Male

-0.35

0.26

0.70

0.1832

Transgender, Non-binary and Others

0.42

0.58

1.52

0.4757

School

Biological Sciences

2.35

1.03

10.46

0.0230*

Design

-0.76

0.54

0.47

0.1553

Education and Human Development

-0.59

0.40

0.55

0.1425

Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences

0.48

0.52

1.62

0.3532

Liberal Arts

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Management

-0.49

0.37

0.61

0.1839

Nursing

-0.43

0.72

0.65

0.5479

Science and Engineering

0.05

0.38

1.05

0.8990