Table 3.
Differences in quality of life across groups
| TCS | Cherubism | Oligodontia/ED | p a | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Overall quality of life | |||||||
| Cantril’s self-anchoring ladder (CL) | 6.36 | 2.58 | 9.00§§,** | 0.86 | 7.37 | 1.94 | 0.002 |
| Psychosocial well-being | |||||||
| Kaasa’s test | |||||||
| Well-being | 3.76***,## | 0.77 | 2.82 | 0.14 | 2.29 | 0.72 | <0.001 |
| Happiness | 2.82 | 0.60 | 1.77* | 0.60 | 2.66 | 1.27 | 0.027 |
| Satisfaction | 2.36 | 0.67 | 1.32* | 1.62 | 2.55 | 1.32 | 0.360 |
| Health-related quality of life | |||||||
| SF-36 | |||||||
| Physical functioning | 77.72*,# | 19.55 | 92.33 | 14.86 | 91.63 | 14.12 | 0.021 |
| Role physical | 90.63 | 18.60 | 91.07 | 21.05 | 85.20 | 24.16 | Ns |
| Bodily pain | 30.65*,# | 9.24 | 86.07 | 18.71 | 75.87 | 27.58 | 0.030 |
| General health | 69.36 | 17.57 | 78.88 | 19.30 | 73.97 | 24.23 | Ns |
| Vitality | 54.54 | 15.57 | 63.78 | 12.76 | 58.30 | 24.79 | Ns |
| Social functioning | 81.81 | 26.43 | 96.97 | 12.89 | 82.81 | 27.72 | Ns |
| Role emotional | 93.80 | 26.43 | 96.66 | 12.90 | 65.78§§§,### | 18.34 | <0.001 |
| Mental health | 81.09 | 14.43 | 82.20 | 14.67 | 74.45 | 20.16 | Ns |
| Physical component scale (PCS) | 42.97**,## | 10.30 | 52.1 | 8.56 | 52.93 | 7.92 | 0.003 |
| PCS case, N (%) | 4 (40) | 2 (13) | 5 (10) | ||||
| Mental component scale (MCS) | 54.20 | 9.55 | 54.29 | 5.42 | 46.24§§,## | 8.26 | 0.001 |
| MCS case, N (%) | 1 (9) | 0 | 11 (23) | ||||
TCS Treacher Collins syndrome, ED ectodermal dysplasia
a P was based on ANOVA
Ns = nonsignificant, based on ANOVA
* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; and *** p < 0.001, compared to oligodontia/ED
# p < 0.05; ## p < 0.01; ### p < 0.001, compared to cherubism
§§ p < 0.01; §§§ p < 0.001, compared to TCS