Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents in paramilitary and nonparamilitary schools with traumatic dental injury
| Variable | Frequency (%) |
Total (154), n (%) | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paramilitary schools (84) | Nonparamilitary schools (70) | |||
| Age | ||||
| 8.00 | 14 (16.7) | 21 (30.0) | 35 (22.7) | 0.111 |
| 9.00 | 16 (19.0) | 15 (21.4) | 31 (20.2) | |
| 10.00 | 21 (25.0) | 12 (17.1) | 33 (21.4) | |
| 11.00 | 12 (14.3) | 13 (18.6) | 25 (16.2) | |
| 12.00 | 21 (25.0) | 9 (12.9) | 30 (19.5) | |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 49 (58.3) | 41 (58.6) | 90 (58.4) | 0.976 |
| Female | 35 (41.7) | 29 (41.4) | 64 (41.6) | |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Edo indigenes | 62 (77.5) | 47 (67.1) | 109 (70.8) | 0.365 |
| Non-Edo indigenes | 22 (22.5) | 23 (32.9) | 45 (29.2) | |
| Religion | ||||
| Christian | 81 (96.4) | 68 (97.1) | 149 (96.8) | 0.0803 |
| Islam | 3 (3.6) | 2 (2.9) | 5 (3.2) | |
| Class | ||||
| Primary 1 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.4) | 1 (0.6) | 0.081 |
| Primary 2 | 3 (3.6) | 3 (4.3) | 6 (3.9) | |
| Primary 3 | 12 (14.3) | 16 (22.9) | 28 (18.2) | |
| Primary 4 | 23 (27.3) | 17 (24.3) | 40 (26.0) | |
| Primary 5 | 41 (48.8) | 25 (35.7) | 66 (42.9) | |
| Primary 6 | 5 (6.0) | 8 (11.4) | 13 (8.4) | |