Table 3.

Longitudinal relationship with quality of life as assessed by multiple regression analyses

	Emotional quality of life at T1 (n = 80)	Physical quality of life at T1 (n = 72)	Social quality of life at T1 (n = 80)
Quality of life at T0a	0.69***	0.56***	0.58***
Background characteristics
Age	0.01	0.01	0.05
Gender (Male)	0.03	−0.02	0.03
Chronic condition
Diabetes	0.01	0.27**	0.03
Neuromuscular disorder	0.00	0.15	0.01
Satisfaction with transitional care
T0 Gap score	0.10	−0.07	0.18
T1 Gap score	−0.20*	−0.10	−0.35**
Adjusted R2	51.7 %	42.7 %	39.8 %
F	13.252	8.664	7.306

^*** p ≤ 0.001; ^** p ≤ 0.01; ^* p ≤ 0.05 (two-tailed). Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is the reference group of the chronic conditions. Listwise deletion of missing cases was used for the analyses. Findings are based on respondents who filled in the questionnaire at both T0 and T1 only

^aEmotional quality of life at T0 was used as independent variable to asses the longitudinal relationship with emotional quality of life at T1. Physical quality of life at T0 was used as independent variable to asses the longitudinal relationship with physical quality of life at T1. Social quality of life at T0 was used as independent variable to asses the longitudinal relationship with social quality of life at T1