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Table 6.

Detailed analysis of ULQIE subscales

Variable	p-value
Variable	U1	U2	U3	U4
Female gender^a	n.s	0.27^c	.009^c	n.s
Psychological care^a	n.s	.016^c	.027^c	n.s
Comorbidities^a	.036^c	< .001^c	n.s	n.s
Neurodevelopmental impairment^a	.006^c	.001^c	n.s	n.s
Weekly working hours^b	n.s	n.s	.005^d	n.s
Number of independent caretakers^b	< .001^d	n.s	.006^d	< .001^d
Number of children^b	n.s	n.s	.042^d	n.s
Sleep disturbance during last 7 days^a	.001^c	n.s	.028^c	.006^c

Ulm Quality of Life Inventory for Parents of Chronically Ill Children (ULQIE) subscales: U1 — physical and daily functioning, U2 — satisfaction with family, U3 — emotional stability, U4 — self-development. The subscale U5 for well-being was excluded from the analysis because internal consistency according to Cronbach’s alpha did not reach the accepted value of > .7

^aStudent’s t-test

^bSpearman’s correlation

^cWorse scores

^dPositive correlation