Table 2.

Bivariate associations between psychosocial risk composite and oral health behavior, oral microbiology, and ECC onset across the study period (based on generalized estimating equations).

	Estimate (SE)	95% CI	p
Oral health behavior
Diet feeding	.92 (.35)	.22–1.61	.0098
Oral hygiene	.39 (.15)	.09–.68	.0102
Tooth monitoring	.03 (.06)	−.09–.14	.6543
Oral microbiology
S. Mutans	.25 (.49)	−.71–1.21	.6117
Lactobacilli	.96 (.27)	.43–1.49	.0004
Candida	−.31 (.21)	−.73–.10	.1391
Early child caries onset	1.57 (.27)	1.12–2.20	.009

Early childhood caries is coded binary (1 = present, 0 = absent).