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

Table 3 Linear regression analysis of predicators of knowledge score

	Univariate analysis			Mulivariate analysis
	β	95% CI	p	βadj	95% CI	p
Age of mother	−0.03	(− 0.08,0.02)	0.25	0.05	(0.03,0.08)	< 0.0001
Age of mother at birth of the first children	- 0.05	(−0.02,-0.13)	0.02	−0.01	(−0.04,0.01)	0.39
NUMBER OF CHILDERN	−0.23	(−0.52,0.06)	0.12	0.09	(−0.20,0.42)	0.50
Mother’s Educational level
None	1			1
1 to 5 years	−1.04	(−1.38,-0.70)	< 0.001	0.49	(0.07,0.92)	0.02
6 to 12	−0.74	(−1.13,-0.37)	< 0.001	1.18	(0.79,1.58)	< 0.001
University	1.11	(0.56,1.65)	< 0.001	2.07	(1.43,2.71)	< 0.001
Mother’s employment status, working^a	1.42	(0.34,2.50)	0.01	1.70	(0.69,2.8)	0.003
Children health status, chronic illness^b	−0.07	(−0.45,0.30)	0.70
Family income
Low	1			1
Medium	0.60	(0.22, 0.99)	0.002	0.38	(0.01,0.76)	0.04
High	- 1.20	(−0.32,-2.09)	0.007	0.45	(− 0.43,1.33)	0.31

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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