Table 6.
Self-report on quality of life by sex, age and location.
| Difficulty doing usual jobs* (n = 2093) n (%) |
p-value | Difficulty chewing (n = 2088) n (%) |
p-value | Self-conscious** (n = 2085) n (%) |
p-value | Difficulty speaking (n = 2086) n (%) |
p-value | Pain*** (n = 2097) n (%) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Male | 231 (28.4) | <.0001 | 290 (35.8) | <.0001 | 242 (29.9) | <.0001 | 127 (15.7) | 0.0003 | 480 (58.8) | 0.0001 |
| Female | 509 (39.8) | 592 (46.4) | 513 (40.2) | 283 (22.2) | 860 (67.1) | ||||||
| Education | |||||||||||
| None | 175 (66.5) | 0.02 | 189 (72.1) | 0.04 | 173 (65.8) | 0.007 | 108 (40.9) | 0.19 | 220 (83.3) | 0.83 | |
| Any 1° | 285 (59.3) | 319 (66.3) | 281 (58.7) | 171 (35.6) | 395 (82.0) | ||||||
| Some 2° | 30 (46.9) | 36 (56.3) | 28 (43.8) | 18 (28.1) | 53 (82.8) | ||||||
| 2° or More | 27 (54.0) | 29 (58.0) | 26 (52.0) | 16 (32.0) | 39 (78.0) | ||||||
| Age (years) | 2–5 | 43 (10.8) | <.0001 | 72 (18.1) | <.0001 | 55 (13.9) | <.0001 | 22 (5.6) | <.0001 | 145 (36.3) | <.0001 |
| 6–11 | 86 (20.2) | 111 (26.2) | 87 (20.6) | 36 (8.5) | 233 (54.8) | ||||||
| 12–19 | 93 (22.7) | 125 (30.5) | 104 (25.4) | 38 (9.3) | 254 (61.8) | ||||||
| 20–39 | 243 (54.6) | 263 (59.1) | 227 (51.1) | 139 (31.2) | 342 (76.9) | ||||||
| 40+ | 275 (66.4) | 311 (75.3) | 282 (68.3) | 175 (42.2) | 366 (88.0) | ||||||
| Location | Urban | 144 (26.2) | <.0001 | 179 (32.7) | <.0001 | 159 (29.0) | <.0001 | 78 (14.3) | 0.0002 | 346 (62.9) | 0.57 |
| Rural | 596 (38.6) | 703 (45.6) | 596 (38.8) | 332 (21.6) | 994 (64.3) | ||||||
| Total | 740 (35.4) | 882 (42.2) | 755 (36.2) | 410 (19.7) | 1340 (63.9) |
* Difficulty doing usual jobs, attending school or participating in social activities
**Self-conscious or embarrassed
***Pain in the mouth during the 12 months preceding this survey