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. 2022 Mar 24;20:49. doi: 10.1186/s12955-022-01948-4

Table 2.

Health-related quality of life in participants born SGA at term and controls at 32 years

SGA (n = 56) Control (n = 68)
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean difference (95% CI)a p-value
Domains
 Physical functioning 93.7 (13.4) 96.3 (7.2)  -2.7 (-6.6 to 0.6) 0.211
 Role-physicalb 78.2 (37.3) 92.6 (19.8)  -14.8 (-25.3 to -4.7) 0.009
 Bodily pain 75.0 (26.3) 78.2 (20.5)  -3.3 (-11.9 to 4.8) 0.435
 General health 78.0 (22.1) 78.3 (18.5)  -0.4 (-7.8 to 6.6) 0.917
 Vitalityc 52.4 (18.9) 55.1 (18.4)  -2.8 (-9.5 to 3.8) 0.419
 Social functioning 87.3 (22.8) 89.9 (19.7)  -2.7 (-10.8 to 4.9) 0.492
 Role-emotional 87.5 (29.5) 92.2 (23.1)  -4.7 (-14.1 to 4.5) 0.336
 Mental healthb 76.0 (15.2) 79.4 (14.1)  -3.4 (-8.4 to 1.6) 0.212
Component summaries
 Physical component summarybc 53.0 (9.6) 55.2 (5.5)  -2.2 (-5.2 to 0.6) 0.134
 Mental component summarybc 49.3 (9.4) 50.6 (9.6)  -1.3 (-4.7 to 2.1) 0.463

Domain scores are given in percentage (range 0-100) and higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life

Component summaries are given as T-scores based on an average of 50 points and a standard deviation of 10 points

CI, confidence interval; SD, standard deviation; SGA, small for gestational age

aMean difference adjusted for sex, confidence interval and p-value based on bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap (BCa)

bData missing for one SGA participant

cData missing for one control participant