Health related quality of life in Dutch young adults: psychometric properties of the PedsQL generic core scales young adult version

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics

	All participants			Healthy			Chronic
	All participants			Healthy			Health condition¹
	N	M	SD	N	M	SD	N	M	SD
Age	649	24.79	3.76	512	24.70	3.70	137	25.14	3.98
	N	%		N	%		N	%
Gender (female)	332	51.2		245	47.9		87	63.5
Ethnicity (Dutch)	631	97.2		498	97.3		133	97.1
Education^†
High	195	30.0		159	31.1		36	26.3
Middle	322	49.6		254	49.7		68	49.6
Low	131	20.2		98	19.2		33	24.1
Employment (paid job)	448	69.0		361	70.5		87	63.5
Marital status (married/living together)	236	36.4		183	35.7		53	38.7

†Highest level completed: Low: primary education, lower vocational education, lower and middle general secondary education; Intermediate: middle vocational education, higher secondary education, pre-university education; High: higher vocational education, university.
¹Most common conditions in Dutch sample were: asthma (34.3%), psychiatry (10.9%), gastro enterology (10.2%) and skin disease (5.8%).

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