Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 5 Differences in QoLISSY scales according to height deviation ( t -test) in child report and in parent report

From: Evaluation of the American-English Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth (QoLISSY) questionnaire in the United States

	Height > −2.0 SD			Height ≤ −2.0 SD
	(taller)			(shorter)
Scale	n	Mean*	SD	n	Mean*	SD	t	df	p
Physical
Child report¹	30	80.97	14.99	19	66.97	23.80	−2.53	47	0.015
Parent report	35	79.12	17.80	25	58.16	21.57	−4.11	58	0.001
Social
Child report	30	79.27	19.77	20	59.64	28.25	−2.90	48	0.006
Parent report	35	75.06	22.57	25	53.13	25.50	−3.52	58	0.001
Emotional
Child report¹	30	79.69	15.91	20	63.28	27.99	−2.38	27.2	0.025
Parent report	35	72.23	19.84	24	61.94	24.18	−1.79	57	0.079
Coping
Child report	28	45.06	17.45	20	58.03	42.47	1.46	46	0.152
Parent report	34	36.25	24.00	22	46.48	21.53	1.62	54	0.111
Beliefs
Child report	29	73.71	23.59	20	63.13	30.27	−1.37	47	0.176
Parent report	35	66.61	30.31	23	56.79	33.55	−1.16	56	0.253
Treatment
Child report	28	48.71	15.47	15	51.90	20.15	0.580	41	0.565
Parent report	33	55.98	19.83	21	47.62	17.85	−1.57	52	0.123
Future
Parent report	35	78.43	23.16	24	66.88	27.42	−1.75	57	0.086
Effects on Parents
Parent report	35	67.40	23.16	25	61.16	21.94	−1.05	58	0.298
Total Score
Child report¹	30	79.98	15.45	19	63.92	25.76	−2.45	26.3	0.021
Parent report	35	75.47	19.03	24	57.87	22.57	−3.23	57	0.002

The Scales “Future” and “Effects on Parents” only exist in the parents’ version.
¹Levene’s test for variance homogeneity is significant with p < .05.
*Minimum = 0, maximum = 100; the higher the better.

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