Oral health and social and emotional well-being in a birth cohort of Aboriginal Australian young adults

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Multivariate models of ABC study participants with experience of poor social and emotional well-being

	Anxiety	Resilience	Depression	Suicide	Mental health
	B (95% CI)	B (95% CI)	B (95% CI)	B (95% CI)	B (95% CI)
Socio-demographic
Sex
Male	ref	ref	ref	ref	ref
Female	0.88 (0.32-1.44)	-1.95 (-2.81--1.09)	1.51 (0.84-2.18)	0.49 (0.25-0.74)	2.47 (1.33-3.60)
Source of household income
Job	-	ref	-	-	-
Welfare	-	-1.93 (-3.17-0.70)	-	-	-
Dental behavioural
Toothbrush ownership
No	-	ref	-	-	-
Yes	-	1.10 (0.16-2.04)	-	-	-
Dental disease experience
DT > 0
No	ref	-	-	-	-
Yes	0.78 (0.16-1.40)	-	-	-	-
FT > 0
No	-	ref	-	-
Yes	-	1.71 (0.66-2.77)	-	-
DMFT > 0					ref
No	-	-	-	-	1.38 (0.04-2.80)
Yes	-	-	-	-
Mean DT	-	-	-	0.034 (0.01-0.06)	-
Oral health impact
How have your teeth been since last wet?
All good, none hurting	-	-	ref	-	-
Some good, some hurting or none good, all hurting	-	-	0.74 (0.08-1.40)	-	-
Do you think your teeth look ok?
All good	-	-	-	-	ref
Some good or none good	-	-	-	-	1.23 (0.01-2.47)
Substance use
Marijuana
No	-	-	ref	-	-
Yes	-	-	0.78 (0.07-1.49)	-	-
Alcohol	-	-		-	-
No	-	-	ref	-	-
Yes			0.91 (0.21-1.62)
Racial Discrimination
Treated unfairly or discriminated against because you are Aboriginal?
Not really	ref	-	ref	ref	ref
Little bit, fair bit, lots	1.18 (0.59-1.78)	-	1.37 (0.67-2.07)	0.34 (0.08-0.60)	2.79 (1.59-3.99)
Cultural knowledge
Do you know a lot about your Aboriginal culture?	-		-	-	-
Not much, little bit, fair bit	-	ref	-	-	-
Lots		1.55 (0.66-2.44)

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