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Table 8.

Spearman Correlation Coefficients¹⁷ for ages 12–16 measuring 6 sub-scales and total QoL scores with three variables

Variable	Age at onset Corr (p-value)	Age at HU Corr (p-value)	Duration of use Corr (p-value)
Age in years	M=1.2(sd=1.0)	M=5.7(sd=3.9)	M=7.9(sd=3.4)

Emotional	0.28 (0.11)	−0.24 (0.17)	0.20 (0.26)
Family	0.11 (0.55)	−0.19 (0.27)	0.21 (0.24)
Friends	0.22 (0.22)	0.21 (0.23)	−0.28 (0.10)
Physical	0.30 (0.08)	−0.13 (0.47)	−0.05 (0.77)
School	0.26 (0.14)	−0.20 (0.26)	0.14 (0.42)
Self-esteem	0.20 (0.26)	0.19 (0.29)	−0.19 (0.29)
Total	0.14 (0.43)	−0.43 (0.01)^*	0.39 (0.02)^*

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p-values are presented without multiplicity adjustment

p<0.05