Table 2.
Domain scores for functional health status.
| Questionnaire and domain | n | Mean±standard deviation |
Median (25th, 75th percentiles) |
Published norms |
p-value* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Health Questionnaire – scale domains | |||||
| Physical functioning | 323 | 87±13 | 89 (81, 96) | 89±14 | 0.05 |
| Role/social limits – physical | 318 | 91±18 | 100 (89, 100) | 88±21 | <.001 |
| Role/social limits – emotional | 324 | 88±20 | 100 (83, 100) | 86±21 | <0.001 |
| Role/social limits – behavioural | 322 | 91±18 | 100 (89, 100) | 87±22 | <0.001 |
| Bodily pain | 319 | 79±22 | 80 (70, 100) | 74±23 | <0.001 |
| Behaviour | 323 | 77±14 | 79 (68, 87) | 77±15 | 0.22 |
| Mental health | 322 | 76±14 | 77 (69, 86) | 73±16 | <0.001 |
| Self-esteem | 323 | 81±14 | 82 (71, 91) | 82±16 | 0.92 |
| General health perceptions | 323 | 66±16 | 68 (55, 78) | 66±15 | 0.73 |
| Family activities | 321 | 80±21 | 88 (67, 100) | Not available | |
| Child Health Questionnaire – single-item domains | |||||
| Family cohesion (five categories; 100 = xcellent to 0 = poor) |
314 | 72±24 | 85 (60, 85) | Not available | |
| Change in health (five categories; 5 = much better now than 1 year ago to 1 = much worse now than 1 year ago) |
308 | 3.8±0.9 | 4 (3, 5) | Not available | |
| Global health (five categories; 100 = excellent to 0 = poor) |
294 | 77±19 | 85 (60, 100) | Not available | |
| Global behaviour (five categories; 100 = excellent to 0 = poor) |
281 | 79±22 | 85 (60, 100) | Not available | |
| Congenital Heart Adolescent Teenage questionnaire – scale domains |
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| Friendship problems | 321 | 7±15 | 0 (0, 8) | Not available | |
| Emotional concerns | 318 | 22±18 | 19 (6, 31) | Not available | |
| Symptom discomfort | 321 | 6±6 | 5 (2, 8) | Not available | |
| Activity limitations | 320 | 15±16 | 13 (4, 21) | Not available | |
| Career concerns | 315 | 16±17 | 10 (5, 25) | Not available | |
| General health | |||||
| (1 = excellent to 5 = poor) | 315 | 2.1±0.9 | 2 (1, 3) | Not available | |
| Perceived severity of heart condition | |||||
| (0 = not at all serious to 5 = very serious) | 312 | 2.5±1.4 | 3 (1, 3) | Not available | |
| Social life affected by heart condition |
CHQ=Child Health Questionnaire
*
Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to compare the distribution of the CHQ scores from the study with the values for a normal population