Table 4.

Children’s SOHO-5 scores (self-reported): associations with subjective and clinical indicators of oral health (N = 725)

Oral health indicators	Percentage (%)	SOHO-5 scores Median (25–75 percentile)	SOHO-5 scores Mean (95% CI)	p
Current dental pain^a
No	58.5	0 (0–1)	0.60 (0.49, 0.72)	< 0.001
A little	28.2	2 (1–3)	2.70 (2.43, 2.98)
A lot	13.3	4 (3–7)	5.07 (4.49, 5.64)
Ever had dental pain^a
No	44.9	0 (0–0)	0.36 (0.23, 0.48)	< 0.001
A little	33.6	2 (1–3)	2.14 (1.91, 2.37)
A lot	21.4	3 (1–6)	4.24 (3.82, 4.67)
Satisfaction with oral health^a
Not satisfied	16.8	3 (1–6)	3.42 (2.89, 3.95)	< 0.001
A little satisfied	37.3	2 (1–4)	2.50 (2.22, 2.78)
Very satisfied	45.9	0 (0–1)	0.70 (0.55, 0.85)
Presence^c of dental cavities^b
No cavity	45.6	0 (0–0)	0.44 (0.33, 0.56)	< 0.001
Have cavity	47.5	2 (1–4)	3.05 (2.78, 3.32)
Dental caries^a
dmft + DMFT = 0	26.8	0 (0–0)	0.06 (0.00, 0.12)	< 0.001
1–2	26.6	0 (0–0)	1.57 (1.28, 1.86)
3–5	29.9	1 (0–2)	2.57 (2.26, 2.89)
> 5	16.6	2 (1–3)	3.50 (3.02, 3.99)
Dental sepsis^b
pufa + PUFA = 0	64.2	0 (0–1)	0.89 (0.74, 1.02)	< 0.001
pufa + PUFA > 0	35.8	3 (2–5)	3.42 (3.10, 3.74)

^aKwallis test

^bWilcoxon rank-sum test

^cChildren that reported ‘don’t know’ (6.8%) in the question on the presence of dental cavities were excluded from this analysis