Evaluation of Perceived Stress and Its Association with Dental Caries in 290 Undergraduate Medical Students

17 December 2024 : Clinical Research

Saeed Awod Bin Hassan

^{ACDEF 1}, Lakshya Kumar

^{ABDEF 2*}, Aditi Verma

^{ABEF 2}, Prakhar Mittal

^{ABEF 3}, Akanksha Yadav

^{ABEF 4}, Ahmed Abdullah Al Malwi

^{CDEF 1}, Abdulelah Sameer Sindi

^{CDEF 1}, Syed M. Yassin

^{CDEG 5}, Shabina Shafi

^{CDEG 6}, Mohamed S.M. Morsy

^{CDEG 7}, Khurshid Mattoo

^{ACDEG 7}

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.946528

Med Sci Monit 2024; 30:e946528

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Table 4 Pearson correlation matrix for age, perceived stress scale scores (PSS) and decayed, missing, filled surface (DMFS) scores.

		Age	Stress score	DMFS score
Age	Pearson correlation	1	−0.072	−0.023
	Sig. (2-tailed)	–	0.219	0.695
	N	290	290	290
Stress score	Pearson correlation	0.072	1	0.410
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.219	–	0.000^*
	N	290	290	290
DMFS score	Pearson correlation	−0.023	0.410	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.695	0.000^*	–
	N	290	290	290
Sig – significance; DMFS – decayed missing filled surfaces; Test: Pearsons correlation coefficient (2-tailed). Level of significance: ^* orrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Correlation size: 0.90 to 1.00=very high positive (negative) correlation, 0.70 to 0.90=high positive (negative) correlation, 0.50 to 0.70=moderate positive (negative) correlation, 0.30 to 0.50=low positive (negative) correlation, 0.00 to 0.30=negligible correlation.

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