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Table 3 Parent-reported mean scores for the CHQ-PF28 in food hypersensitive schoolchildren with or without allergic disease(s)

From: Health-related quality of life in food hypersensitive schoolchildren and their families: parents' perceptions

Scale

Total N = 134

Allergic disease 1N = 100

No allergic disease N = 34

p-value

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

 

Physical Functioning (PF)

87.6

20.2

83.6

21.9

99.3

3.8

.000

Role/social limitations – Emotional/Behavioural (REB)

90.2

20.0

89.8

19.8

91.1

20.6

NS

Role/social limitations – Physical (RP)

86.9

24.9

82.8

27.5

99.0

5.7

.000

Bodily Pain/discomfort (BP)

74.8

23.0

72.5

23.8

81.7

19.3

.048

Behaviour (BE)

68.1

17.0

67.5

17.6

70.1

15.4

NS

Mental Health (MH)

72.0

15.3

71.3

16.1

74.0

12.9

NS

Self Esteem (SE)

77.7

17.4

76.6

17.5

81.1

16.9

NS

General Health (GH)

70.9

23.4

66.3

23.5

84.

17.6

.000

Parental impact – Emotional (PE)

81.9

20.4

79.3

20.8

89.3

17.1

.003

Parental impact – Time (PT)

90.4

17.3

88.3

19.2

96.5

6.8

.029

Family Activities (FA)

85.5

19.2

83.8

19.4

90.4

17.9

.027

Family Cohesion (FC)

68.8

25.3

70.6

24.4

63.6

27.4

NS

Physical summary measure (PhS) 2

49.8

11.7

47.1

12.3

57.6

4.6

.000

Psychosocial summary measure (PsS) 2

49.6

9.4

49.2

9.6

50.5

8.8

NS

  1. 1 Asthma, eczema, rhino conjunctivitis.
  2. 2 The PhS and PsS measures are standardized so that all scores above and below 50 are above and below the average, respectively, of a general U.S. child population [28].