Health related quality of life of Dutch children: psychometric properties of the PedsQL in the Netherlands

Table 2 Socio-demographic data of participants per age group

	Age group 5-7		Age group 8-12		Age group 13-18
Child	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Age	6.67	0.73	11.27	1.35	14.98	1.20
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total	92	18.5	219	44.2	185	37.3
Gender (boys)	43	46.7	104	47.5	80	43.2
Chronic health condition¹	14	15.6	26	11.9	25	14.5
Contact general practitioner	54	60.7	91	41.9	88	50.9
Contact medical specialist	20	22.2	55	25.2	44	25.6
Psychological care	1	1.1	23	10.7	14	8.2
*Parent* ²	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Age	40.58	4.77	43.67	5.66	47.23	4.78
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Gender (male)	15	16.7	37	17.4	40	23.3
Ethnicity (Dutch)	87	95.6	177	81.2	150	86.7
Education (high)	57	64.0	97	44.7	76	45.0
Employment	61	67.8	158	72.5	130	76.0

¹Most common conditions in total Dutch sample were: asthma (36.4%), congenital defect (13.6%), skin disease (6.1%) and migraine (6.1%). ²Socio-demographic data of parent that completed the questionnaire.

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