Salivary Cortisol as a Biomarker to Explore the Role of Maternal Stress in Early Childhood Caries

Table 4

Binary logistic regression model using the presence or absence of ECC as exposure factor and salivary cortisol levels of the mother and the child as covariates.

(a)

Model summary
	−2Log likelihood	Cox and Snell 𝑅^2	Nagelkerke 𝑅^2
	32.712	.556	.758

(b)

Variables in the equation
	𝐵	S.E.	Wald	df	Sig.	Exp(𝐵)
Cortisol-Mother	−3.146	2.216	2.015	1	.156	.043
Cortisol-Child	41.440	10.291	16.215	1	.000*	9.934
Constant	−3.853	1.192	10.448	1	.001*	.021

∗Association significant at 𝑃<0.001.