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Table 2 Self-reported functional health and well-being, and Subjective health complaints at 34-years of age in 35 subjects born extremely preterm, with or without severe disability, and 35 matched term-born controls using the SF-36 questionnairea and HBSC-SCLc

From: Development of health-related quality of life and subjective health complaints in adults born extremely preterm: a longitudinal cohort study

 

EP-born

severe disability

(n = 6)

EP-born

healthy

(n = 29)

Term-born

controls

(n = 35)

EP-born

severe disability vs Term-born controls

(n = 5)b

EP-born

healthy vs Term-born controls

(n = 19)b

 

Mean (SD)

Range

Mean (SD)

Range

Mean (SD)

Range

Mean difference with 95% CI

Mean difference with 95% CI

SF-36 domains

        

Physical Functioning

55.0 (41.1)

5–100

92.8 (9.6)

65–100

94.4 (11.0)

50–100

-55.0 (-112.0, 2.0)

-2.4 (-9.4, 4.7)

Role Physical

66.7 (51.7)

0–100

87.9 (29.6)

0–100

85.7 (32.8)

0–100

-40.0 (-108.0, 28.0)

1.3 (-19.0, 21.6)

Bodily Pain

63.0 (35.2)

22–100

74.8 (26.0)

22–100

78.5 (22.9)

22–100

-30.4 (-72.5, 11.7)

-9.9 (-26.7, 6.9)

General Health

51.6 (28.3)

25–87

69.9 (21.7)

20–100

75.7 (18.7)

25–100

-25.5 (-56.4, 5.4)

-11.1 (-24.1, 1.9)

Vitality

31.9 (20.6)

5–55

50.5 (21.7)

0–85

60.3 (19.1)

5–85

-15.7 (-20.4, 10.9)

-19.2 (-35.0, -3.3)

Social Functioning

72.9 (21.5)

50–100

81.5 (30.2)

0–100

89.6 (22.6)

0–100

-20.0 (-50.2, 10.2)

-17.1 (-37.1, 2.9)

Role Emotional

50.0 (54.8)

0–100

75.9 (38.7)

0–100

91.4 (26.0)

0–100

-40.0 (-108.0, 28.0)

-22.8 (-45.6, -0.1)

Mental Health

57.3 (24.9)

16–84

76.0 (17.2)

16–96

79.9 (16.7)

16–92

-17.6 (-35.1, -0.2)

-10.4 (-20.9, 0.0)

HBSC-SCL variablesc

        

HBSC total (0–32)

8.0 (8.2)

0–21

7.5 (7.8)

0–32

5.3 (6.1)

0–25

-0.3 (-5.9, 5.5)

5.6 (0.6, 10.7)

Somatic complaints,

sub-score (0–16)

2.6 (2.9)

0–7

3.3 (4.1)

0–16

2.5 (2.8)

0–9

0.3 (-3.9, 4.4)

2.2 (-0.4, 4.8)

Psychological complaints,

sub-score (0–16)

5.4 (5.6)

0–14

4.2 (4.6)

0–16

2.6 (3.7)

0–16

-0.5 (-2.6, 1.6)

3.4 (0.6, 6.3)

  1. CI confidence interval EP extremely preterm HBSC Health Behaviour in School-aged Children-Symptom Checklist SD standard deviation
  2. Bold results: p ≤ 0.05
  3. aSF-36 (Short Form Health Survey-36), with possible domain scores from 0 to 100, higher score indicates better functional health and well-being
  4. bThe lower number is due to missing in pairs
  5. cHigher score indicates more symptoms