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

Table 4 Linear regression analysis of predicators of practices score

	Univariate analysis			Mulivariate analysis
	β	95% CI	p	βadj	95% CI	p
Age of mother	−0.006	(− 0.04,0.03)	0.74
Age of mother at birth of the first children	0.02	(−0.02,0.07)	0.36
Mother’s Educationnel level
None	−1.04	(−1.38, −0.70)	< 0.001	− 0.72	(−1.41,-0.50)	< 0.001
1 to 5 years	− 0.74	(−1.13,-0.37)	< 0.001	− 0.02	(− 0.56,-0.82)	0.02
6 to 12	1.11	(0.56, 1.65)	< 0.001	−1.18	(− 0.78,-0.33)	< 0.001
University	1				1
Mother’s employment status, working^a	−0.34	(−1.89, 1.20)	0.65
Children health status, chronic illness^b	0.87	(0.30,1.45)	0.003	0.84	(0.25,1.43)	0.005
Family income
Low	1			1
Medium	0.45	(−0.15, 1.06)	0.14	0.32	(− 0.29, 0.93)	0.30
High	0.94	(−0.18, 2.06)	0.10	1.12	(−0.04, 2.29)	0.06

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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