Modelling health belief predictors of oral health and dental anxiety among adolescents based on the Health Belief Model: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Standardized and unstandardized path coefficients of the path analysis model

Effects	Standardized path coefficient (β)	Unstandardized path coefficient	SE	95% CI	Bootstrapping p	R²
Oral health behaviors
Perceived susceptibility	−0.07	−0.07	0.03	−0.12 to −0.00	0.04	0.14
Perceived severity	−0.01	−0.01	0.03	− 0.08 to 0.05	0.72
Perceived benefits	0.06	0.09	0.05	−0.01 to 0.17	0.08
Perceived barriers	−0.21	−0.25	0.04	−0.33 to − 0.17	< 0.01
Cues to action	0.08	0.08	0.03	0.02 to 0.13	0.01
Self-efficacy	0.23	0.20	0.03	0.15 to 0.25	< 0.01
Oral health (DMFT)
Oral health behaviors	−0.05	−0.08	0.06	−0.20 to 0.04	0.09	0.04
Perceived susceptibility	0.17	0.30	0.18	−0.06 to 0.66	0.16
Dental anxiety
Perceived susceptibility	0.07	0.56	0.24	0.05 to 1.03	0.03	0.14
Perceived severity	0.09	0.72	0.23	0.31 to 1.18	< 0.01
General anxiety	0.32	0.44	0.04	0.36 to 0.52	< 0.01
Oral health (DMFT)	0.07	0.28	0.13	0.04 to 0.54	0.02
Oral health behaviors	−0.09	−0.74	0.23	−1.18 to −0.30	< 0.01

Note: 95% CI, 95% confidence interval of the unstandardized path coefficient; SE, standard error of the unstandardized path coefficient

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