Table 4 PedsQL™ self-report comparing healthy and ill children
From: Reliability and validity of PedsQL for Portuguese children aged 5–7 and 8–12 years
5-7 age group | 8-12 age group | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Healthy children (n=32) | Children with chronic illness (n=36) | Healthy children (n=50) | Children with chronic illness (n=61) | ||||||
mean | s.d. | mean | s.d. | mean | s.d. | mean | s.d. | ||
Total scale score | 80.91 | 6.69 | 70.59 | 13.66 | 82.37 | 8.57 | 70.31 | 15.70 | |
t (66) = 3.88;p<0.0005 | t (109) = 4.86;p<0.0005 | ||||||||
PedsQL subscales | Physical functioning | 86.72 | 9.75 | 69.10 | 20.37 | 86.38 | 11.20 | 71.21 | 22.21 |
Emotional functioning | 80.00 | 14.81 | 70.00 | 15.49 | 73.20 | 13.58 | 67.46 | 21.09 | |
Social functioning | 77.19 | 11.43 | 75.56 | 17.48 | 89.00 | 12.45 | 73.93 | 18.78 | |
School functioning | 76.25 | 10.70 | 68.61 | 21.67 | 78.50 | 12.51 | 68.11 | 15.63 | |
Pillai's Trace = 0.281; p<0.0001 | Pillai's Trace = 0.213; p<0.0001 | ||||||||
Hotelling's Trace = 0.392; p<0.0001 | Hotelling's Trace = 0.270; p<0.0001 | ||||||||
Wilk's Lambda = 0.718; p<0.0001 | Wilk's Lambda = 0.787; p<0.0001 | ||||||||
Roy's Largest Root= 0.281; p<0.0001 | Roy's Largest Root= 0.212; p<0.0001 | ||||||||
Tests of between-subjets effects | Physical functioning | F (1,66) = 19.87; p<0.0001 | F (1,109)=19.27; p<0.0001 | ||||||
Emotional functioning | F (1,66) = 7.36; p<0.009 | F (1,109)=2.79; p<0.099 | |||||||
Social functioning | F (1,66) = 0.20; p<0.655 | F (1,109)=23.64; p<0.001 | |||||||
School functioning | F (1,66) = 3.26; p<0.075 | F (1,109)=14.47; p<0.001 | |||||||