Table 1.
Frequency distribution (%) of participants' socio-demographic characteristics dental treatment availability and clinical indicators of private (n = 553) and public (n = 556) school attendees.
| Socio-demographic characteristics | Public schools %(n) |
Private schools % (n) | P-Value # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Father's education | 19.9 (111) | 4.2 (23) | < .001 |
| Low | 52.2 (291) | 28.6 (158) | |
| Medium | 26.9 (150) | 66.7 (368) | |
| High | |||
| Mother's education | 23.3 (130) | 3.6 (20) | < .001 |
| Low | 62.5 (348) | 54.7 (302) | |
| Medium | 13.6 (76) | 40.6 (224) | |
| High | |||
| Socioeconomic status variable | |||
| Low | 78.8 (434) | 49.8 (273) | < .001 |
| Middle | 21.2 (118) | 50.2 (277) | |
| History of dentist visit | 1.1 (6) | 3.3 (18) | . <.001 |
| Follow-up\checkup | 32.3 (180) | 60 (331) | |
| Pain | 66.6 (371) | 36.8 (203) | |
| Never visited | |||
| Dental treatment experience | |||
| Extraction only | 18.3 (102) | 32.6 (180) | < .001 |
| Others | 5.6 (31) | 11.4 (63) | |
| Professional therapy for toothache sought | 18 (100) | 38.6 (213) | < .001 |
| Locality | |||
| Khartoum | 9 (50) | 30.4(168) | < .001 |
| Other | 91 (506) | 69.6 (385) | |
| Tooth brushing | |||
| Regular | 89.9(500) | 97.3(538) | < .001 |
| Irregular | 10.1 (56) | 2.7 (15) | |
| Sugar-sweetened snack intake | |||
| High consumer | 33.8(188) | 32 (177) | < .001 |
| Low consumer | 66.2 (368) | 68 (376) | |
| Past caries experience | |||
| DMFT > 0 | 23.6 (131) | 30.2(167) | < .001 |
| DMFT = 0 | 76.4 (425) | 69.8 (386) | |
| Active caries (permanent and deciduous dentition) | 30.6 (170) | 34.7(192) | 0.141 |
| Present | 69.4 (386) | 65.3 (361) | |
| Not present | |||
| Fluorosis | |||
| Present | 15.8(88) | 8 (44) | < .001 |
| Not present | 84.2 (468) | 92 (509) | |
| Dental trauma | |||
| present | 1.8(10) | 2.7 (15) | 0.305 |
| Not present | 98.2 (546) | 97.3 (538) |
# P value for Chi-Square test to compare proportions of socio-demographic characteristics between the two school sectors.