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Table 4 Mean scores, SD's and differences by gender between adult patients and comparison group on the scales of the TAAQoL questionnaire

From: Living with muscular dystrophy: health related quality of life consequences for children and adults

TAAQOL

Males

Females

 

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

 

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

 
 

MD

Healthy

 

MD

Healthy

 
 

N = 46

N = 1962

d

N = 21

N = 2354

d

Gross Motor

34.6 (26.3)***

88.2 (21.2)

2.5

29.5 (23.6)***

83.7 (24.9)

2.2

Fine Motor

83.1 (20.8)***

97.4 (10.4)

1.4

77.4 (16.9)***

93.8 (16.0)

1.0

Cognitive Functioning

82.7 (24.4)

83.4 (22.0)

0.0

76.5 (29.8)

82.3 (23.4)

0.3

Sleeping

77.6 (32.1)

78.8 (24.1)

0.1

39.9 (36.4)**

69.8 (27.1)

1.1

Pain

69.4 (24.2)*

76.8 (22.9)

0.3

61.3 (33.7)

70.4 (25.0)

0.4

Social Functioning

89.5 (19.5)

84.8 (17.3)

-0.3

91.4 (12.4)**

82.8 (20.7)

-0.4

Daily activities

76.2 (31.4)*

85.8 (22.5)

0.4

65.2 (33.6)*

81.5 (26.5)

0.6

Sexual functioning

86.6 (30.4)

83.6 (27.7)

-0.1

91.9 (15.9)

86.3 (23.6)

-0.2

Vitality

53.6 (24.6)***

68.0 (22.4)

0.6

43.3 (31.6)*

60.4 (24.7)

0.7

Happiness

67.6 (21.5)

65.2 (21.0)

-0.1

60.3 (18.6)

64.1 (22.4)

0.2

Aggressiveness

78.7 (23.8)*

87.5 (17.2)

0.5

76.7 (26.5)

87.9 (16.4)

0.7

Depressive moods

72.3 (24.3)*

81.6 (19.2)

0.5

64.7 (21.9)*

75.0 (21.3)

0.5

  1. One sample t-tests *p < 0.05 **p < 0.01 ***p < 0.001
  2. d = effect size
  3. Higher score represent a better HRQoL