Table 1.
Health related quality of life (HRQoL) scores in children with abdominal predominant functional gastrointestinal diseases and controls
| Quality of life domains |
Irritable bowel syndrome |
Functional dyspepsia |
Abdominal migraine |
Functional abdominal pain |
AP-FGD total |
Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | |
| Physical functioning (%) |
84.7 (15.1)**** |
94.0 (7.8) |
81.6 (15.2)**** |
89.1 (12.1)*** |
87.9 (13.4)**** |
91.5 (10.9) |
| Emotional functioning (%) |
70.1 (21.2)**** |
89.5 (9.3) |
68.4 (22.8)**** |
77.8 (19.7)**** |
75.6 (20.3)**** |
83.4 (17.0) |
| Social functioning (%) |
85.7 (16.5)**** |
95.0 (9.2) |
86.3 (15.6)**** |
92.1 (12.1) |
90.0 (14.0)**** |
92.7 (11.6) |
| School functioning (%) |
74.1 (18.7)**** |
89.5 (12.5) |
72.5 (19.3)**** |
79.9 (16.6)* |
78.0 (18.0)**** |
82.6 (16.8) |
| Total HRQoL score (%) | 79.6 (13.6)**** | 92.3 (5.6) | 78.6 (12.7)**** | 85.6 (10.4)** | 83.8 (11.8)**** | 88.1 (10.9) |
AP-FGD = abdominal pain predominant functional gastrointestinal diseases.
*p = 0. 04, **p = 0.006, ***p = 0.003, **** p < 0.0001 compared to controls, unpaired t-test.