Table 3.

Univariate regression analysis with oral-health-related quality of life as the dependent variable and participant characteristics for denture wearers only (n = 105)

Variable	C	95% CI LB	95% CI UB	R2	p-value
Age	0.028	−0.041	0.098	0.006	0.417
Gender	−0.188	−1.753	1.377	0.001	0.812
MMSE	0.060	−0.030	0.149	0.017	0.190
Care needed (dichotomised)	−0.829	−2.181	0.524	0.014	0.227
Body Mass Index	0.103	−0.012	0.217	0.030	0.079
Nutritional status	−1.143	−2.818	0.532	0.017	0.179
Teeth	0.096	−0.013	0.204	0.029	0.083
Natural teeth	1.123	−0.251	2.497	0.025	0.108
Treatment needs	−2.461	−4.023	−0.900	0.087	0.002
Pressure	−0.891	−2.543	0.760	0.011	0.287
Total denture status (dichotomised)	−1.366	−2.824	0.091	0.032	0.066
Number of functional occluding pairs	0.285	0.151	0.419	0.148	<0.001
Denture condition	−2.975	−4.274	−1.675	0.167	<0.001
Subjective evaluation of chewing efficiency (dichotomised, n = 103)	1.847	0.073	3.622	0.041	0.041
Chewing efficiency (n = 103)	−4.103	−6.848	−1.359	0.080	0.004

Note: Significant p-values are marked in bold.

Abbreviations: C, regression coefficient; CI, confidence interval; LB, lower boundary; UB, upper boundary; R², squared Pearson correlation.