Table 5.
Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents and cause of traumatic dental injury
| Variable | Etiology of TDI |
P | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports, n (%) | Fights, n (%) | Falls and play, n (%) | RTA, n (%) | Collision, n (%) | Beating by parent, n (%) | Total 100% | ||
| Age | ||||||||
| 8.00 | 3 (8.6) | 4 (11.4) | 16 (45.7) | 0 (0.0) | 10 (28.6) | 2 (5.7) | 35 | 0.023* |
| 9.00 | 10 (32.3) | 7 (22.6) | 11 (35.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (9.7) | 0 (0.0) | 31 | |
| 10.00 | 8 (24.2) | 4 (12.1) | 19 (57.6) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (6.1) | 0 (0.0) | 33 | |
| 11.00 | 8 (32.0) | 3 (12.0) | 10 (40.0) | 1 (4.0) | 3 (12.0) | 0 (0.0) | 25 | |
| 12.00 | 12 (40.0) | 5 (16.7) | 12 (40.0) | 1 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 30 | |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 24 (26.7) | 16 (17.8) | 38 (42.2) | 1 (1.1) | 9 (10.0) | 2 (2.2) | 90 | 0.644 |
| Female | 17 (26.6) | 7 (10.9) | 30 (46.9) | 1 (1.6) | 9 (14.1) | 0 (0.0) | 64 | |
| School | ||||||||
| Paramilitary | 20 (23.8) | 15 (17.9) | 40 (47.6) | 2 (2.4) | 7 (8.3) | 0 (0.0) | 84 | 0.159 |
| Nonparamilitary | 21 (30.0) | 8 (11.4) | 28 (40.0) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (15.7) | 2 (2.9) | 70 | |
| Class | ||||||||
| Primary 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0.000* |
| Primary 2 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (16.7) | 3 (50.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (33.3) | 6 | |
| Primary 3 | 5 (17.9) | 3 (10.7) | 11 (39.3) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (32.1) | 0 (0.0) | 28 | |
| Primary 4 | 7 (17.5) | 6 (15.0) | 22 (55.0) | 1 (2.5) | 4 (10.0) | 0 (0.0) | 40 | |
| Primary 5 | 24 (36.4) | 10 (15.2) | 26 (39.4) | 1 (1.5) | 5 (7.6) | 0 (0.0) | 66 | |
| Primary 6 | 5 (38.5) | 3 (23.1) | 5 (38.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 13 | |
*Significant (P<0.05). TDI=Traumatic dental injury, RTA=Road traffic accidents