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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: Burns. 2019 Mar 6;45(5):1031–1040. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2019.02.008

Table 3 –

Mean scale scores for participants sustaining burn injuries as children vs as adults.

Scale scores were standardized to a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10 based upon the entire burn sample of 601 participants used for the calibration phase of the LIBRE Profile. The scale used for each LIBRE item is the Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5.

Age at burn injury Sexual relationships Family & friends Social interactions Social activities Work & employment Romantic relationships
<18years  50.8 (12.2) 52.1 (10.65)    47.8 (9.59) 55.6 (9.83)    52.2 (8.63)  50.3 (10.86)
≥18years  48.9 (10.9) 50.4 (10.33)    47.1 (10.03) 51 (10.29)    48.0 (9.53)  47.2 (12.02)
p-value  0.14 0.07    0.48 <0.01    <0.01  <0.01

Values presented are mean (standard deviation).