Knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices toward children oral health among mother’s attending maternal and child’s units, Salé, Morocco

Table 2 Linear regression analysis of predicators of attitudes scores

	Univariate analysis			Mulivariate analysis
	β	95% CI	p	βadj	95% CI	p
Age of mother	− 0.03	(− 0.08, 0.02)	0.25	− 0.03	(− 0.10,0.03)	0.30
Age of mother at birth of the first children	−0.05	(− 0.02,-0.13)	0.02	0.009	(−0.08,0.10)	0.86
NUMBER OF CHILDERN	−0.23	(−0.52, 0.06)	0.12	0.10	(−0.21,0.43)	0.50
Mother’s Educational level
None	1			1
1 to 5 years	−0.22	(− 1.13, 0.67)	0.61	− 0.06	(− 1.09, 0.96)	0.89
6 to 12	0.32	(−0.30, 0.96)	0.30	0.14	(−0.63, 0.92)	0.71
University	1.38	(0.05,2.71)	0.04	1.7	(0.26,3.14)	0.02
Mother’s employment status, working^a	1.42	(0.34,2.50)	0.01	1.73	(0.68,2.79)	0.002
Children health status, chronic illness^b	0.68	(−0.17,1.54)	0.11	−0.20	(−1.11,0.70)	0.65
Family income
Low	1			1
Medium	1.46	(0.73,2.19)	< 0.001	1.47	(0.64,2.30)	0.001
High	0.82	(−0.67,2.32)	0.27	0.62	(− 0.96,2.21)	0.43

1 reference category, β unadjasted linear regression coefficient, βadj adjasted linear regression coefficient, CI confidence interval
^anon working was reference category
^bgood global health was reference category

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