Health-related quality of life in a group of Egyptian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: relationship to microvascular complications

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 6 Correlation between Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory scores with demographic and clinical characteristics in the studied diabetic patients

Functioning scale	Age (years)		A.O.D (years)		D.D (years)		Socioeconomic score		BMI (kg/m²)		Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)		Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)
Functioning scale	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value
PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales
Total score	− 0.647	< 0.001**	0.311	0.016*	− 0.630	< 0.001**	0.551	< 0.001**	− 0.577	< 0.001**	− 0.379	0.003**	− 0.475	< 0.001**
Physical health	− 0.646	< 0.001**	0.332	0.010**	− 0.643	< 0.001**	0.471	< 0.001**	− 0.549	< 0.001**	− 0.382	0.003**	− 0.481	< 0.001**
Psychosocial health	− 0.630	< 0.001**	0.294	0.023*	− 0.607	< 0.001**	0.583	< 0.001**	− 0.577	< 0.001**	− 0.368	0.004**	− 0.462	< 0.001**
PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetic Module
total score	− 0.608	< 0.001**	0.236	0.069	− 0.555	< 0.001**	0.545	< 0.001**	− 0.498	< 0.001**	− 0.296	0.021*	− 0.407	0.001**
Diabetes symptoms	− 0.560	< 0.001**	0.226	0.083	− 0.515	< 0.001**	0.541	< 0.001**	− 0.452	< 0.001**	− 0.265	0.041*	− 0.367	0.004**
Treatment barriers	− 0.554	< 0.001**	0.229	0.078	− 0.516	< 0.001**	0.541	< 0.001**	− 0.422	0.001**	− 0.226	0.082	− 0.332	0.010**
Treatment adherence	− 0.630	< 0.001**	0.305	0.018*	− 0.614	< 0.001**	0.505	< 0.001**	− 0.527	< 0.001**	− 0.330	0.010**	− 0.435	0.001**
Worry	− 0.597	< 0.001**	0.167	0.201	− 0.504	< 0.001**	0.488	< 0.001**	− 0.522	< 0.001**	− 0.314	0.015*	− 0.439	< 0.001**
Communication	− 0.598	< 0.001**	0.096	0.465	− 0.459	< 0.001**	0.496	< 0.001**	− 0.509	< 0.001**	− 0.310	0.016*	− 0.397	0.002**

A.O.D age of onset of disease, D.D disease duration
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level