Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of the learners by type of schools (N = 107).
Fig 1.
Summary of employment status of parents or caregivers of the children (n
= 107). **Footnote: Employed caregivers included, domestic workers, waiters, security guards, retail workers, teachers and policemen.Self-employed refered to caregivers that had local small businesses such as vendor’s, taxi drivers, car mechanics and sales people. Unemployed status referred to nobody working in the household or caregivers being on government pension or social grants.
Table 2.
Household socio-economic status of the children at the schools.
Table 3.
Oral health experiences of the children in the two schools.
Table 4.
Sugar and calorie intake between NSNP school and Non NSNP schools.
Table 5.
Correlation between sugar and calorie intake with DMFT/dmft and GI score.
Table 6.
Estimate of sugar content of food consumed at both schools per day.
Table 7.
Relationship between variables and (dmft).
Table 8.
Relationship between variables and oral health (DMFT).
Table 9.
Relationship between variables and gingival scores.