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Table 5 PedsQL scales: construct validity

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

  

Healthy sample

 

Chronic health condition

  

Subscale

N

Mean

SD

N

Mean

SD

Effect size

p value

Age group 5-7

76

  

14

    

Total score

 

85.31

8.59

 

78.80

9.58

0.76

<.05*

Physical health

 

88.65

9.13

 

80.58

13.71

0.88

<.01**

Psychosocial health

 

83.53

9.70

 

77.86

10.22

0.58

<.05*

Emotional functioning

 

76.38

13.80

 

73.93

11.30

0.18

.53

Social functioning

 

87.76

11.70

 

80.00

12.56

0.66

<.05*

School functioning

 

86.45

10.76

 

79.64

15.00

0.63

<.05*

Age group 8-12

192

  

26

    

Total score

 

82.31

8.83

 

80.64

9.32

0.19

.37

Physical health

 

85.25

8.85

 

82.21

12.14

0.34

.12

Psychosocial health

 

80.75

10.34

 

79.81

10.43

0.09

.67

Emotional functioning

 

76.85

13.76

 

78.85

13.21

-0.15

.49

Social functioning

 

86.51

12.24

 

83.27

12.80

0.26

.21

School functioning

 

78.88

11.90

 

77.31

13.13

0.13

.53

Age group 13-18

148

  

25

    

Total score

 

83.14

8.99

 

77.09

9.40

0.67

<.01**

Physical health

 

86.76

9.21

 

81.00

12.00

0.63

<.01**

Psychosocial health

 

81.21

10.22

 

75.00

9.56

0.61

<.01**

Emotional functioning

 

77.53

15.01

 

71.40

16.62

0.41

.07

Social functioning

 

90.14

11.37

 

83.40

12.97

0.59

<.01**

School functioning

 

75.95

12.68

 

70.20

15.17

0.45

<.05*

  1. * Significant p < .05, ** Significant p < .01.
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