TABLE III.
Health-Related Quality of Life Scores
| Amputation Group* | Limb Reconstruction Group* | MANOVA P Value | Univariate P Value† | Power Value | |
| Parent-proxy health-related quality of life | — | — | 0.006 (treatment main effect) | — | — |
| Total | 73.9 ± 18.2 | 86.3 ± 13.4 | — | NS | |
| Physical | 76.4 ± 23.6 | 82.9 ± 19.0 | — | NS | |
| Emotional | 76.3 ± 24.1 | 86.7 ± 14.7 | — | NS | |
| Social | 73.8 ± 22.2 | 87.6 ± 15.8 | — | NS | |
| School | 66.2 ± 23.0 | 90.0 ± 14.6 | — | <0.001 | |
| Child-form health-related quality of life | — | — | 0.014 (treatment-by-income interaction) | — | — |
| Total | 81.6 ± 10.9 | 83.0 ± 12.5 | — | NS | |
| Physical | 81.7 ± 18.9 | 83.4 ± 16.7 | — | NS | |
| Emotional | 83.2 ± 16.5 | 85.5 ± 14.0 | — | NS | |
| Social | 87.8 ± 14.8 | 83.6 ± 17.6 | — | NS | |
| School | 74.5 ± 15.8 | 78.9 ± 19.8 | — | NS | |
| PedsQL Family Impact Module | — | — | 0.311 | — | 0.491 |
| Total | 78.6 ± 24.8 | 85.4 ± 13.4 | — | NS | |
| Physical | 84.1 ± 25.9 | 83.3 ± 15.3 | — | NS | |
| Emotional | 73.9 ± 26.0 | 83.6 ± 19.5 | — | NS | |
| Social | 82.6 ± 28.9 | 91.7 ± 20.0 | — | NS | |
| Cognitive | 79.3 ± 27.6 | 92.1 ± 14.6 | — | NS | |
| Communication | 77.5 ± 28.0 | 87.3 ± 16.6 | — | NS | |
| Worry | 69.3 ± 25.5 | 74.5 ± 22.1 | — | NS | |
| Daily activities | 81.8 ± 27.7 | 89.7 ± 20.7 | — | NS | |
| Family relations | 81.0 ± 26.2 | 85.2 ± 24.0 | — | NS | |
| PPQ-VAS | — | — | 0.359 | — | 0.316 |
| Child—current pain | 1.0 ± 1.7 | 0.9 ± 1.7 | — | NS | |
| Child—worst in past week | 2.0 ± 2.9 | 2.1 ± 3.1 | — | NS | |
| Parent-proxy—current pain | 0.4 ± 0.7 | 0.3 ± 0.5 | — | NS | |
| Parent-proxy—worst in past week | 1.4 ± 2.4 | 0.4 ± 0.8 | — | NS | |
| Piers-Harris self-concept scales | — | — | 0.909 | 0.134 | |
| Total | 52.8 ± 9.9 | 55.9 ± 11.9 | — | NS | |
| Physical | 49.8 ± 9.6 | 51.4 ± 9.3 | — | NS | |
| Behavioral | 49.4 ± 9.7 | 52.7 ± 9.3 | — | NS | |
| Intellectual | 52.1 ± 8.6 | 55.8 ± 8.7 | — | NS | |
| Freedom from anxiety | 53.5 ± 7.8 | 55.1 ± 8.6 | — | NS | |
| Popularity | 51.3 ± 9.3 | 53.5 ± 11.4 | — | NS | |
| Happiness | 50.9 ± 7.9 | 53.3 ± 9.2 | — | NS | |
| BASC-2: parent report | — | — | 0.104 | 0.560 | |
| Internalizing | 52.3 ± 10.7 | 45.9 ± 10.1 | — | NS | |
| Externalizing | 52.7 ± 11.9 | 46.6 ± 8.5 | — | NS | |
| Attention problems | 53.6 ± 11.5 | 46.1 ± 9.4 | — | NS | |
| Behavioral symptoms index | 53.0 ± 12.8 | 44.4 ± 8.3 | — | NS | |
| BASC-2: self-report | — | — | 0.498 | 0.233 | |
| Internalizing | 45.5 ± 5.8 | 44.9 ± 11.9 | — | NS | |
| Inattention-hyperactivity | 50.6 ± 12.2 | 46.9 ± 12.8 | — | NS | |
| Attention problems | 51.4 ± 10.7 | 46.4 ± 13.5 | — | NS | |
| Emotional symptoms index | 45.5 ± 6.4 | 44.1 ± 13.6 | — | NS |
*
The values are given as the mean and the standard deviation.
†
NS = not significant.