Table 7.
Comparison of PedsQL 4.0 Argentinean Spanish scores of healthy children and children with chronic conditions
| Healthy children | All Chronic conditions | p-value1 | Scores by illness group | |||||||
|
SCT2 Mean (SD) |
COPD3 Mean (SD) |
HIV/AIDS4 Mean (SD) |
Cancer Mean (SD) |
ESRD5 Mean (SD) |
CCC6 Mean (SD) |
Differences7 | ||||
| Self-Report | ||||||||||
| Total | 72.72 (14.21) |
66.87 (16.74) |
0.011 | 71.64 (17.13) |
58.54 (15.8) |
71.31 (17.07) |
65.16 (15.45) |
65.29 (19.96) |
68.98 (15.22) |
SCT, HIV > COPD* |
| Physical | 75.42 (15.93) |
67.76 (19.60) |
0.004 | 74.24 (17.08) |
58.16 (19.84) |
74.58 (18.05) |
60.98 (19.44) |
67.17 (1.32) |
72.03 (15.84) |
SCT, HIV > Cancer* SCT > COPD** HIV > COPD*** |
| Psychosocial | 71.20 (14.84) |
66.36 (17.49) |
0.028 | 70.10 (18.51) |
58.76 (16.43) |
69.52 (17.69) |
67.57 (6.46) |
64.07 (7.45) |
67.32 (7.04) |
NS8 |
| Proxy-Report* | ||||||||||
| Total | 82.19 (12.97) |
73.36 (16.09) |
< 0.001 | 75.46 (15.99) |
69.61 (18.29) |
79.32 (13.3) |
71.39 (14.79) |
66.92 (18.8) |
74.61 (13.52) |
HIV > COPD, ESRD* |
| Physical | 86.20 (12.27) |
74.67 (20.06) |
< 0.001 | 77.13 (17.44) |
67.85 (23) |
83.98 (14.23) |
69.92 (18.82) |
66.83 (26.28) |
79.49 (15.78) |
HIV > COPD, Cancer, ESRD*** CCC > COPD* |
| Psychosocial | 79.91 (14.96) |
72.41 (16.45) |
< 0.001 | 74.46 (17.89) |
70.38 (18.47) |
76.74 (14.77) |
72.24 (16.34) |
66.93 (16.53) |
71.57 (14.02) |
NS7 |
1 Student's t test 2Stem Cell Transplant 3Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 4Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 5End Stage Renal Disease 6Complex Congenital Cardiopathies 7p values based on analysis of variance (ANOVA) * p < .05 **p < .01 ***p < .005 With a Bonferroni correction for the number of comparisons, p < 0.005 should be considered statistically significant. Higher values equal better health-related quality of life. 8NS: non-significant