The effect of motivational interviewing on oral healthcare knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of parents and caregivers of preschool children: an exploratory cluster randomised controlled study

Table 7 Oral health behavior and attitudes at 4-month follow-up, control v test group (Independent sample t-test)

Variable	Group	n	Mean	sd	95 %CI	p value
Child weekly tooth brushing
	Control	20	10.55	4.07	8.77-12.33	<0.01
	Test	21	13.09	1.44	12.47-13.71
Self-efficacy
	Control	20	24.60	6.91	21.57-27.62	0.379
	Test	21	26.79	5.14	24.59-28.99
Oral health fatalism
	Control	20	5.95	2.04	5.06-6.84	<0.05
	Test	21	4.09	1.73	3.35-4.83
Openness to health information
	Control	20	15.35	2.64	14.19-16.51	0.593
	Test	21	15.86	3.32	14.73-16.99
Valuing dental health
	Control	20	19.80	8.71	16.07-23.52	0.847
	Test	21	19.42	0.81	19.07-19.77
Convenience and change difficulty
	Control	19	9.58	2.34	9.23-9.94	0.410
	Test	21	7.67	3.21	6.30-9.04
Child permissiveness
	Control	20	8.30	3.86	6.61-9.99	0.352
	Test	21	7.33	3.63	5.78-8.88
RAPIDD pros
	Control	20	35.15	9.58	30.95-39.35	0.952
	Test	21	35.29	3.38	33.84-36.74
RAPIDD cons
	Control	19	17.37	4.98	15.13-19.61	0.154
	Test	21	15.00	5.28	12.74-17.26

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