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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Health Care. 2013 Jul 30;28(3):251–261. doi: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2013.05.006

Table 4.

Summary of Main Findings

Adolescents with heart disease reported:

  • a higher than expected incidence of internalizing problems, e.g. anxiety, depression;

  • lower health-related quality of life than healthy norms;

  • global self-worth, competence, and the presence of externalizing problems were not different from healthy norms;

  • self-perceptions of health, self-worth, and the discrepancy between competence and importance in specific domains explained the most variance in behavior and HRQOL.