Quality of Life as reported by children and parents: a comparison between students and child psychiatric outpatients

Table 4 Median differences in QoL by child and parent proxy report in outpatient-student pairs^{1, 2}

	Patient Median	Student Median	N (pairs)	Patient's parent Median	Student's parent Median	N (pairs)
Total sample
ILC 0-100	71.4*	78.6	86	67.9	67.9	102
ILC Problem-score 0-7	2.0**	1.0	86	3.0	3.0	102
Parent of student did not report child had received help in past 12 months
ILC 0-100	71.4*	78.6	54	67.9**	75.0	66
ILC Problem-score 0-7	2.0*	1.0	54	3.0**	2.0	66

¹ in the outpatient and school samples, matched for sex, age and levels of emotional and behavioural problems.
² shown both for the total sample and when excluding student-patient pairs where student has received help recently.
* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 (Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test).

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