10.6084/m9.figshare.12171042.v1 Laio da Costa DUTRA Laio da Costa DUTRA Érick Tássio Barbosa NEVES Érick Tássio Barbosa NEVES Larissa Chaves Morais de LIMA Larissa Chaves Morais de LIMA Monalisa Cesarino GOMES Monalisa Cesarino GOMES Franklin Delano Soares FORTE Franklin Delano Soares FORTE Saul Martins PAIVA Saul Martins PAIVA Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de ABREU Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de ABREU Fernanda Morais FERREIRA Fernanda Morais FERREIRA Ana Flávia GRANVILLE-GARCIA Ana Flávia GRANVILLE-GARCIA Degree of family cohesion and social class are associated with the number of cavitated dental caries in adolescents SciELO journals 2020 Adolescent Dental Caries Family Relations Social Class 2020-04-22 02:42:28 Dataset https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Degree_of_family_cohesion_and_social_class_are_associated_with_the_number_of_cavitated_dental_caries_in_adolescents/12171042 <div><p>Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between number of cavitated dental caries in adolescents and family cohesion, drug use, sociodemographic factors and visits to the dentist. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 746 adolescents aged 15 to 19 years from Campina Grande, Brazil. The parents answered a questionnaire addressing sociodemographic data, and the adolescents answered questionnaires on drug use, type of family cohesion and visits to the dentist. Two examiners underwent training and calibration exercises (K > 0.80) to diagnose dental caries using the Nyvad criteria. A directed acyclic graph was created to select the variables to be controlled in the statistical model. Associations between the independent variables and the outcome were determined using robust Poisson Regression analysis for complex samples (α = 5%). Rate ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. The prevalence of dental caries and cavitated lesions among the adolescents was 92.8% and 41.6%, respectively. The following variables remained associated with the number of cavitated lesions in the multivariate analysis: disengaged (RR: 6.30; 95%CI: 1.24–31.88; p = 0.028 ), separated (RR: 4.80; 95%CI: 1.03–22.35; p = 0.046) and connected (RR: 5.23; 95%CI: 1.27–21.59; p = 0.024) levels of family cohesion, and high social class (RR: 0.55; 95%CI: 0.39–0.76; p = 0.001). In conclusion, this paper posits that adolescents with a lower socioeconomic status, and those whose family cohesion was classified as disengaged, separated or connected, had a larger number of cavitated lesions.</p></div>