Research Article
Poor Dental Status and Oral Hygiene Practices in Institutionalized Older People in Northeast Brazil
Table 1
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of institutionalized older people in northeast Brazil.
| | Total N (%)* | Dentate N (%)* | Edentulous N (%)* | P value (dentates versus edentulous) |
| | Sex | | | | | | Male | 81 (50.6%) | 43 (53.1%) | 38 (46.9%) | | | Female | 79 (49.4%) | 24 (30.4%) | 55 (69.6%) | | Age | | | | | | 65–74 years | 75 (46.9%) | 33 (44.0%) | 42 (56.0%) | | | 75–84 years | 56 (35.0%) | 21 (37.5%) | 35 (62.5%) | | 85 years | 29 (18.1%) | 13 (44.8%) | 16 (55.2%) | | Marital status | | | | | | Single/widowed/divorced | 141 (88.1%) | 54 (38.3%) | 87 (61.2%) | | | Married | 19 (11.9%) | 13 (68.4%) | 6 (31.6%) | | Time in institution | | | | | | 0–5 years | 85 (53.1%) | 42 (49.4%) | 43 (50.6%) | | | 6–10 years | 32 (20.0%) | 12 (37.5%) | 20 (62.5%) | | 10 years | 43 (26.9%) | 13 (30.2%) | 30 (69.8%) | | General literacy level | | | | | | Illiterate | 65 (40.6%) | 26 (40.0%) | 39 (60.0%) | | | Literate | 95 (59.4%) | 41 (43.2%) | 54 (56.8%) |
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% in “total” column are column percentages; % in “dentate” and “edentulous” columns are row percentages.
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