Table 4.
Correlations between responses to perceived oral health and general health (POH and PGH) questions among the participants
| PGH | p-value (χ2) |
Pearson correlation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excellent | Very good | Good | Fair | Poor | |||
| POH | |||||||
| Excellent | 24 (11.7) | 123 (60.0) | 45 (22.0) | 9 (4.4) | 4 (2.0) | ||
| Very good | 55 (7.3) | 403 (53.2) | 234 (30.9) | 50 (6.6) | 15 (2.0) | ||
| Good | 23 (2.8) | 182 (22.4) | 398 (49.1) | 155 (19.1) | 53 (6.5) | ||
| Fair | 9 (1.9) | 79 (16.5) | 189 (39.5) | 106 (22.2) | 95 (19.9) | ||
| Poor | 2 (1.9) | 11 (10.4) | 17 (16.0) | 24 (22.6) | 52 (49.1) | < 0.001 | 0.464, p < 0.001 |
Statistical significance set at p < 0.05.