Long-term follow-up of mental health, health-related quality of life and associations with motor skills in young adults born preterm with very low birth weight

Table 3 Results of the Short Form 36 Health Survey at 23 years

	VLBW (n = 35)			VLBW (n = 25) without CP and/or low IQ_est			Control (n = 35)
	Mean	(SD)	p-value vs control	Mean	(SD)	p-value vs control	Mean	(SD)
Domains
Physical functioning	90.4	(13.6)	0.018	94.6	(8.3)	0.286	96.6	(5.9)
Role-physical	80.0	(30.8)	0.005	86.0	(24.0)	0.051	96.4	(10.7)
Bodily pain	68.7	(28.3)	0.022	74.5	(23.8)	0.193	82.0	(18.3)
General health	72.1	(18.9)	0.260	70.5	(18.5)	0.477	66.8	(20.0)
Vitality^a	49.2	(14.2)	0.091	50.5	(13.7)	0.227	54.9	(13.2)
Social functioning	86.1	(16.5)	0.025	88.5	(13.0)	0.099	94.3	(13.3)
Role-emotional	78.1	(33.3)	0.012	82.7	(29.1)	0.069	95.2	(20.0)
Mental health^a	70.6	(16.8)	0.067	73.4	(14.1)	0.272	77.4	(13.2)
Physical component summary^a	47.8	(5.9)	0.009	49.4	(5.2)	0.160	51.2	(4.1)
Mental component summary^a	45.2	(8.4)	0.013	46.6	(7.4)	0.087	49.7	(6.4)

^aData missing for one control participant
Domain scores are given in percentage (range 0–100) and higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life
Component summaries are given as T-scores with average of 50 points and a standard deviation of 10 points
VLBW = very low birth weight, CP = cerebral palsy, IQ _est = estimated intelligence quotient
Analyses performed with Students t-test

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