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Possibly the prevalence for each of the outcomes measured would have been different if the adolescents themselves had completed the questionnaire but parental completion was retained to streamline, as much as possible, the methods employed for both MANCAS studies.
The inclusion criteria were children aged 4 to 6 years and studying at one of the schools selected for this study; presence of a normal number, size and shape of teeth; absence of extensive caries or large restorations and teeth with hopeless prognosis; parental completion of the questionnaire and absence of any local or systemic condition that might affect the development of bones and teeth.
**Due to low parental completion of SDQ, we did not obtain these numbers.
Parental completion of the questionnaire for 6- to 7-year-olds implied informed consent.
In Bulgaria, low completion rates among parents of Roma children were precluded inclusion of parental information in the analysis; in Romania, parental completion rates were high (86.6%).
Differences (change in symptom severity from baseline for parent report, and difference in severity for teacher report) adjusted for children's age, sex, medication use (yes or no), total number of mental health comorbidities, parental age, parental completion of high school (yes or no), socioeconomic status (index of relative socioeconomic disadvantage).
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> No statistically significant differences were found in the parental SES completion rate by material affluence scale, age and gender (p = 0.110, p = 0.263, p = 0.110, p = 0.510 respectively).
Information on child sex (male/female), ethnicity (white/non-white), birthweight, gestation, maternal age and highest level of maternal education (<16, 16 and >16 years) was available from medical records, clinic visits and parental self-completion questions.
In fact, my own research shows that only two background factors matter for college completion: parents' own education and parental net worth.
Over all, only 80.7% of the adolescents completed parental SES measures information compared to 94.2% completion rate for the material affluence indicators.
In the case of hepatitis B, it is reasonable to consider peripartum testing with birth dose vaccine and parental counseling to ensure completion of the vaccine series, as reported rates of likely vaccination series completion are sub-optimal [ 9].
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