Evaluation of determinant factors for the presence and activity of dental caries in five-year-old children: study with decision tree

Autor: Maria Betânia Lins Dantas Siqueira, Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia, Monalisa Cesarino Gomes, Kátia Virgínia Guerra Botelho, Adriana Freitas Lins Pimentel Silva, Matheus França Perazzo, Edja Maria Melo de Brito Costa, Érick Tássio Barbosa Neves, Ane Polline Lacerda Protasio
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Public Health. 26:587-594
ISSN: 1613-2238
2198-1833
DOI: 10.1007/s10389-017-0892-2
Popis: The aim of the present study was to investigate dental caries and caries activity as well as determine associations with sociodemographic factors and visits to the dentist among 5-year-old children. Seven hundred sixty-nine children enrolled in preschools in a medium-sized city in northeast Brazil participated in the study. Two examiners who had undergone training exercises performed the examinations using the ICDAS-II. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression for complex samples were performed (α = 5%). An inductive decision tree was created for the occurrence of cavitated lesions (J48 algorithm). The prevalence of caries was 91.5% (59.5% cavitated lesions and 32.0% white spots). Among the children diagnosed with caries, 87.1% had active caries. In the multivariate analysis, low income (OR = 2.90; 95% CI: 1.05–8.05) and having visited a dentist for treatment (OR = 7.94; 95% CI: 2.58–24.39) were associated with dental caries (white spot and/or cavitated lesion). For caries activity, low income (OR = 4.63; 95% CI: 1.60–13.35) and having visited a dentist for treatment (OR = 4.80; 95% CI: 2.06–11.18) remained in the final model. In the decision tree, the following variables were predictors of cavitated lesions: lower parent schooling level (p
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