Table 2.

Fixed Coefficients of fixed effects on Paediatric Quality of Life 4.0 (PedsQL 4.0) global score.

Model Term	Coefficient	SE	t	p	95% CI
					Lower	Upper
Intercept	2.843	0.1584	17.943	0.000	2.532	3.154
Hong Kong	−0.010	0.0105	−0.937	0.349	−0.030	0.011
Beijing	0.182	0.0363	5.025	0.000	0.111	0.253
Tokyo & Hyogo	0.147	0.0334	4.404	0.000	0.082	0.212
Seoul	0.231	0.0135	17.182	0.000	0.205	0.258
Bangkok	0 b	.	.	.	.	.
Age	−0.004	0.0143	−0.295	0.768	−0.032	0.024
Male	0.015	0.0196	0.788	0.431	−0.023	0.054
Female	0 b	.	.	.	.	.
Grade 4	−0.124	0.0879	−1.410	0.159	−0.296	0.049
Grade 5	−0.092	0.0695	−1.327	0.185	−0.229	0.044
Grade 6	−0.094	0.0739	−1.275	0.202	−0.239	0.051
Grade 7	−0.151	0.0522	−2.896	0.004	−0.254	−0.049
Grade 8	−0.024	0.0786	−0.311	0.756	−0.179	0.130
Grade 9	0 b	.	.	.	.	.
Protestantism	−0.064	0.0223	−2.863	0.004	−0.107	−0.020
Catholic Church	−0.051	0.1616	−0.313	0.754	−0.368	0.266
Buddhism	−0.098	0.0334	−2.939	0.003	−0.163	−0.033
Islam	−0.026	0.1071	−0.239	0.811	−0.236	0.184
Other religion	−0.246	0.0166	−14.785	0.000	−0.279	−0.213
No religious belief	0 b	.	.	.	.	.
Parents not living together	0.027	0.0335	0.810	0.418	−0.039	0.093
Parents married and living together	0 b	.	.	.	.	.
ALQ physical participation	0.049	0.0198	2.452	0.014	0.010	0.087
ALQ nutrition	0.073	0.0138	5.264	0.000	0.046	0.100
ALQ social support	0.112	0.0445	2.515	0.012	0.025	0.199
ALQ stress management	0.002	0.0200	0.114	0.910	−0.037	0.042
ALQ identity awareness	0.171	0.0077	22.399	0.000	0.156	0.186
ALQ health practices	−0.034	0.0110	−3.104	0.002	−0.056	−0.013
ALQ safety	−0.001	0.0123	−0.100	0.921	−0.025	0.023

^b This coefficient is set to zero because it is redundant.