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Table 4 Differences in subjective health complaints at 17, 24 and 34 years between subjects born extremely preterm, and matcheda controls born at term provided by the Health Behaviour School-aged Children-Symptom Checklist (HBSC-SCL)b and estimated by mixed linear modelsc

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

 

Unadjusted

Adjusted

Response variable

HBSC-SCL

Mean difference

EP-born versus Term-born

Estimate 95% CI

At age 17 years

Mean difference

EP-born versus Term-born

Estimate 95% CI

At age 24 years

Mean difference

EP-born versus Term-born

Estimate 95% CI

At age 34 years

Mean difference

EP-born versus Term-born

Estimate 95% CI

Group by age

p-value

Mean difference

EP-born versus Term-born

Estimate 95% CId

Total score

2.21 (0.84, 3.59)**

0.22 ( − 1.97, 2.40)

4.01 (1.68, 6.34)

2.85 (0.26, 5.44)

0.058

2.36 (0.62, 4.11)

Somatic complaints sub-score

0.85 (0.14, 1.55)**

0.22 ( − 0.91, 1.34)

1.47 (0.27, 2.67)

0.97 ( − 0.37, 2.31)

0.321

0.76 ( − 0.15, 1.67)

Psychological complaints sub-score

1.37 (0.54, 2.19)***

0.00 ( − 1.31, 1.31)

2.53 (1.14, 3.92)

1.86 (0.32, 3.40)

0.027*

1.63 (0.61, 2.65)

  1. CI confidence interval EP extremely preterm HBSC-SCL Health Behaviour in School-aged Children-Symptom Checklist SD standard deviation
  2. *p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001
  3. aMatched for gender and age
  4. bWith possible score from 0 to 32 on total HBSC and 0–16 on sub-scores. Higher score indicates more symptoms
  5. cMixed linear models were used to assess differences in the HBSC-SCL scores between the groups at each age 17, 24 and 34 years, by including a group by age interaction dAdjusted for gender, education level, employment status and age in models without group by age interaction