Effectiveness of Randomized Controlled Field Trial Instructing Parents to Supervise Children on Tooth Brushing Skills and Oral Hygiene

Table 5: Unadjusted and adjusted Odds Ratio (OR) for children’s tooth brushing skills, oral hygiene and gingival health at baseline and follow up.

Variable	Categories	Unadjusted Odds Ratio (OR) (95%CI)	Adjusted by Parental Socio-demographics Odds Ratio (OR) (95% CI)	Adjusted by Parental Socio-demographics, Awareness and Practices Odds Ratio (OR) (95% CI)
Tooth brushing skills at baseline	Control	1	1	1
Tooth brushing skills at baseline	Intervention	0.3 (0.03, 3.3)	0.3 (0.03, 4.3)	0.4 (0.02, 5.3)
Tooth brushing skills at follow up	Control	1	1	1
Tooth brushing skills at follow up	Intervention	61.8 (7.7, 498.6)**	65.2 (8.2, 520.3)**	88.2 (9.2, 847.4)**
Good oral hygiene at baseline	Control	1	1	1
Good oral hygiene at baseline	Intervention	0.5 (0.2, 1.2)	0.6 (0.3, 1.3)	0.5 (0.2, 1.2)
Good oral hygiene at follow up	Control	1	1	1
Good oral hygiene at follow up	Intervention	3.1 (1.4, 6.9)*	3.3 (1.5, 7.4)*	3.6 (1.5, 8.3)*
Healthy gingiva at baseline	Control	1	1	1
Healthy gingiva at baseline	Intervention	0.8 (0.4, 1.7)	0.8 (0.4, 1.8)	0.8 (0.3, 1.8)
Healthygingivaat follow up	Control	1	1	1
Healthygingivaat follow up	Intervention	2.1 (0.9, 4.7)	2.0 (0.9, 4.5)	2.0 (0.8, 4.8)