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Table 3 Description of the adolescent’s total and domain scores in the PAQLQ, Chronbach alpha coefficients and gender differences

From: Health-related quality of life in adolescents with chronic physical illness in northern Russia: a cross-sectional study

X

Overall score

Activity

Symptom

Emotional

Mean (SD)1

    

Adolescents

5.7 (0.92)

5.2 (0.99)

5.9 (1.04)

5.8 (0.92)

  Girls (n = 23)

5.3 (1.02)**

5.0 (0.85)

5.3 (1.22)***

5.6 (1.08)

  Boys (n = 26)

6.0 (0.73)

5.6 (1.19)

6.3 (0.56)

6.0 (5.7, 6.6)

Cronbach alpha

0.94

0.72

0.89

0.85

  1. 1Higher score, better QoL.
  2. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 significant differences between girls and boys scores.