Frequent toothbrushing boosts resilience among children in poverty: results from a population-based longitudinal study

Table 3 Association of Children’s resilient of coping scale (CRCS) with child poverty by toothbrushing frequency among children in Japan (N = 3459)

			Model 1 (crude)	Model 2 (adjusted)	Model 3 (adjusted)
Child poverty / Toothbrushing frequency	n	CRCS (mean)	Coefficient (95% CI)	Coefficient (95% CI)	Coefficient (95% CI)
no poverty (n = 2,663)
less than twice a day toothbrushing	549	67.6	ref.	ref.	ref.
twice or more a day toothbrushing	2,114	70.8	3.26 (1.76, 4.75)	2.42 (0.95, 3.88)	0.65 (-0.57, 1.88)
poverty (n = 796)
less than twice a day toothbrushing	228	62.0	ref.	ref.	ref.
twice or more a day toothbrushing	568	68.0	5.99 (3.40, 8.57)	6.39 (3.81, 8.98)	2.66 (0.53, 4.79)

Note: Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)
Model 2 adjusted for sex, number of parents living at home, number of grandparents living at home, number of children in the household, maternal age, maternal education, maternal employment, maternal mental condition
Model 3 adjusted for Model 2 + CRCS at baseline

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