Table 3.
Difference in PedsQL Scores by Injury Type and Injury Location, Adjusted for Age and Sexa
| Report by Scale Score | Injury Location | Group Difference at Follow-up (95% CI)c |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Extremity | Lower Extremity | ||||||||
| n | Baseline | Follow-up | ESb | n | Baseline | Follow-up | ESb | ||
| Parent | |||||||||
| Total | 109 | 88.5 (12.2) | 83.8 (12.3) | 0.39 | 68 | 87.4 (16.1) | 74.5 (16.5) | 0.80 | 9.3 (5.0 to 13.6) |
| Physical summary | 109 | 90.8 (17.5) | 75.3 (18.9) | 0.89 | 68 | 88.8 (22.3) | 59.4 (27.1) | 1.32 | 15.9 (9.1 to 22.7) |
| Psychosocial summary | 109 | 87.2 (12.4) | 88.5 (11.2) | −0.10 | 68 | 86.6 (14.7) | 82.8 (14.1) | 0.26 | 5.7 (1.9 to 9.5) |
| Child | |||||||||
| Total | 83 | 85.0 (12.3) | 80.6 (11.1) | 0.36 | 52 | 83.0 (11.1) | 72.7 (15.1) | 0.93 | 7.9 (3.4 to 12.4) |
| Physical summary | 83 | 89.4 (11.4) | 73.1 (17.3) | 1.43 | 52 | 89.6 (12.7) | 58.6 (25.7) | 2.44 | 14.5 (7.2 to 21.8) |
| Psychosocial summary | 83 | 82.7 (14.5) | 84.5 (12.1) | −0.12 | 52 | 80.1 (11.9) | 80.3 (12.7) | −0.02 | 4.2 (−0.1 to 8.5) |
| Report by Scale Score | Injury Type |
Group Difference at Follow-up (95% CI)c |
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| Soft Tissue | Fracture | ||||||||
| n | Baseline | Follow-up | ESb | n | Baseline | Follow-up | ESb | ||
| Parent | |||||||||
| Total | 188 | 88.6 (13.8) | 87.8 (13.1) | 0.06 | 82 | 86.3 (14.9) | 77.9 (15.4) | 0.56 | 9.9 (6.3 to 13.5) |
| Physical summary | 188 | 91.3 (18.2) | 84.1 (20.8) | 0.40 | 82 | 86.7 (22.8) | 66.8 (23.2) | 0.87 | 17.3 (11.7 to 22.9) |
| Psychosocial summary | 188 | 87.1 (13.0) | 89.8 (11.6) | −0.21 | 82 | 86.0 (13.4) | 84.0 (13.4) | 0.15 | 5.8 (2.6 to 9.0) |
| Child | |||||||||
| Total | 117 | 83.4 (11.8) | 83.1 (13.8) | 0.03 | 61 | 83.0 (13.2) | 73.4 (13.4) | 0.73 | 9.7 (5.4 to 14.0) |
| Physical summary | 117 | 88.4 (12.2) | 79.1 (21.7) | 0.76 | 61 | 87.8 (13.2) | 63.0 (20.4) | 1.87 | 16.1 (9.5 to 22.7) |
| Psychosocial summary | 117 | 80.8 (13.1) | 85.3 (12.8) | −0.34 | 61 | 80.4 (15.0) | 79.0 (14.2) | 0.05 | 6.3 (2.2 to 10.4) |
Abbreviations: ES, effect size; PedsQL, Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Generic Core Scales.
a
Unless otherwise indicated, data are expressed as mean (SD) scores.
b
Calculated as mean change in score divided by the standard deviation of the population at baseline. Effect size for differences in scale score means are designated as small (0.20), medium (0.50), and large (0.80).
c
Group differences at baseline were not statistically significant for any total or subscale score.