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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Caries Res. 2015 Feb 3;49(2):177–183. doi: 10.1159/000368560

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Path models, dt model and dft model, show pathways of the influence of caregiver education level on children's oral health mediated by caregiver's and children's oral health behavior (N=423). It is configured in four stages: (1) caregiver education level as exposure, (2) caregiver's oral health self-care behaviors as mediator, (3) children's oral health behaviors as mediator, and (4) children's oral health outcome, the total number of decayed primary teeth in the dt model and the total of number of decayed or filled primary teeth in the dft model. Thick continuous line arrows denote the presence of a statistically significant (p<0.05) relationship. Thin continuous line arrows denote the presence of a trend in significance at p<0.10. Arrows with dotted lines denote the non-significant relationships. Estimated β-coefficients with the standard errors for the estimates (in parentheses) are displayed.