A longitudinal study on quality of life after injury in children

Table 3 PedsQL total health score, parent report at each follow-up point^a,^*

	Baseline			One Month			Four Months			Twelve Months
	n	mean	sd	n	mean	sd	n	mean	sd	n	mean	sd
Sex		p = 0.31			p = 0.82			p = 0.47			p = 0.44
Male	127	90.2	9.2	113	77.6	17.5	106	89.9	9.7	103	90.8	9.8
Female	77	91.5	8.3	72	78.2	18.6	63	91	9.6	58	92.1	9.5
Age Category		p = 0.58			p = 0.005			p = 0.003			p = 0.22
0 - 5	84	91.3	8.5	74	82.8	16.0	65	92.4	7.9	62	92.2	9.6
6 -10	66	89.8	9.5	63	73.0	18.7	52	86.6	11.4	46	89.6	10.7
11-16	54	90.7	8.8	48	76.5	17.9	41	91.3	8.5	41	92.9	7.2
Hospitalization Status		p = 0.77			p < 0.001			p = 0.71			p = 0.82
ED	144	90.5	8.9	132	82.6	14.8	126	90.2	10.1	113	91.4	9.2
Hospitalized	60	90.9	8.9	53	65.9	19.6	43	90.8	8.4	48	91	10.8
PaedCTAS		p = 0.15			p < 0.001			p = 0.72			p = 0.87
1 (resuscitation required)	11	85.4	12.4	10	65.8	17	9	88	9.4	7	90.7	12
2	38	91.1	8.6	33	68.2	19.9	30	90.1	8.5	33	91	9.1
3	43	91.7	8.2	40	78	18.3	34	89.8	9.2	34	92.2	8.7
4	104	90.3	8.9	94	82	15.9	90	90.5	10.5	79	91.3	9.7
5 (non-urgent)	8	95.2	4.3	8	82	11.8	6	95	4.8	8	88.1	14.3
Income Quintile		p = 0.12			p = 0.16			p = 0.44			p = 0.27
1 (lowest income quintile)	25	90.2	9.5	21	73.9	21.1	18	89	9.9	13	93	9.3
2	25	88.3	11.7	23	74.8	18.6	20	87.4	10.2	18	88.2	10.6
3	43	93	6.9	38	83.9	17.6	37	92.3	9.6	38	92.6	10.9
4	39	88.6	9.4	35	75.6	17.5	31	90.8	10.8	33	89.1	10.8
5 (highest income quintile)	72	91.4	8.1	68	77.8	16.5	63	90.2	8.9	59	92.2	7.6
Injury		p = 0.89			p < 0.001			p = 0.99			p = 0.95
Head injury	18	91.4	6.7	17	89.3	8.2	15	91.4	6.4	12	93.6	5.9
Lower extremity fracture	25	92.9	9.2	22	58.6	19.9	16	88.7	9.4	15	90.2	10.2
Major trauma	16	89.0	11.6	15	65.5	21.2	13	90.0	9.8	13	90.0	11.2
Minor external injury	77	90.8	9.4	67	84.8	15.3	60	89.2	11.6	57	91.3	10.9
Upper extremity fracture	49	89.6	8.5	46	77.9	12.2	41	91.5	8.8	41	92.6	7.3
Other^*	16	90.7	6.9	15	74.8	16.9	11	90.6	5.9	10	92.0	9.1

^aVariable ranges from 0-100 with 100 representing perfect health; minimal clinically important difference is a 4 point change
*P values for differences in mean PedsQL scores across variables (within time points) from bivariable linear regression, < 0.001 considered significant with Bonferroni correction

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