| Literature DB >> 31660189 |
Ingrid Oma Langeland1, Ragnhild Sollesnes1, Roy Miodini Nilsen2, Grethe Almenning3, Eva Langeland1.
Abstract
AIM: To examine differences in health-related quality of life between boys and girls in the first and third years of upper secondary school.Entities:
Keywords: adolescents; nurses; nursing; public health nursing; quality of life
Year: 2019 PMID: 31660189 PMCID: PMC6805264 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.366
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nurs Open ISSN: 2054-1058
Figure 1Flow chart of the sample in the study
Sample characteristics for girls and boys in the first year of upper secondary school
| Characteristic at VG1 | Gender |
| |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls, | Boys, | ||
| Total | 228 (57.6) | 168 (42.4) | |
| Age | |||
| 15/16 | 224 (98.2) | 157 (94.0) | .025 |
| >16 | 4 (1.8) | 10 (6.0) | |
| Educational programme | |||
| Specialization | 206 (90.4) | 150 (89.3) | .728 |
| Vocational | 22 (9.6) | 18 (10.7) | |
| Disease | |||
| No | 169 (75.8) | 127 (77.9) | .625 |
| Yes | 54 (24.2) | 36 (22.1) | |
| Residential status | |||
| Mother and father | 117 (68.4) | 103 (82.4) | .007 |
| Others | 54 (31.6) | 22 (17.6) | |
| Siblings | |||
| Yes | 119 (70.0) | 85 (66.9) | .572 |
| No | 51 (30.0) | 42 (33.1) | |
By chi‐square test.
Mother, father, grandparents, stepparents, girlfriend and boyfriend.
Mean for overall HRQoL score (0–100 scale) at the first measurement point (Vg1)
| Characteristic at VG1 | KIDscreen (HRQoL) | Self‐assessed health | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Mean ( |
| No. | Mean ( |
| |
| Total | 405 | 404 | ||||
| Gender | ||||||
| Girls | 228 | 69.8 (11.5) | <.001 | 228 | 2.67 (0.9) | <.001 |
| Boys | 168 | 76.3 (10.7) | 167 | 3.20 (0.9) | ||
| Age | ||||||
| 15/16 | 381 | 72.6 (11.6) | .883 | 381 | 2.91 (1.0) | .025 |
| >16 | 14 | 72.1 (11.4) | 13 | 2.31 (0.9) | ||
| Educational programme | ||||||
| Specialization | 361 | 73.0 (11.2) | .093 | 361 | 2.94 (0.9) | .005 |
| Vocational | 44 | 69.2 (14.5) | 43 | 2.51 (1.1) | ||
| Disease | ||||||
| No | 304 | 73.8 (10.8) | .001 | 303 | 3.05 (0.9) | <.001 |
| Yes | 91 | 69.1 (13.0) | 91 | 2.42 (1.1) | ||
| Residential status | ||||||
| Mother and father | 225 | 73.8 (10.8) | .020 | 224 | 3.02 (1.0) | .003 |
| Others | 79 | 70.3 (13.2) | 79 | 2.65 (0.9) | ||
| Siblings | ||||||
| Yes | 208 | 73.3 (10.7) | .566 | 207 | 2.99 (0.9) | .083 |
| No | 97 | 72.4 (13.3) | 97 | 2.77 (1.0) | ||
Abbreviation: HRQoL, health‐related quality of life.
By Independent t test.
Mother, father, grandparents, stepparents, girlfriend and boyfriend.
Mean and difference in overall HRQoL outcome (0–100 scale), the first and second measurement time
| HRQoL outcome | Gender | Mean gender difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girl | Boy | |||||
| No. | Mean ( | No. | Mean ( | Crude (95% CI) | Adjusted (95% CI) | |
| KIDscreen | ||||||
| Vg1 Baseline | 228 | 69.8 (11.5) | 168 | 76.3 (10.7) | 6.5 (3.78, 9.24) | 6.1 (3.69, 8.50) |
| Vg3 Follow‐up | 270 | 65.7 (13.3) | 197 | 73.5 (12.4) | 7.7 (5.18, 10.30) | 7.2 (4.82, 9.64) |
| Change (95% CI) | −3.8 (−5.49, −2.19) | −2.6 (−4.55, −0.70) | 0.35 | 0.39 | ||
| Self‐assessed health | ||||||
| Vg1 Baseline | 228 | 2.67 (0.93) | 167 | 3.20 (0.92) | 0.52 (0.30, 0.73) | 0.52 (0.34, 0.71) |
| Vg3 Follow‐up | 268 | 2.62 (0.96) | 196 | 3.05 (0.96) | 0.43 (0.23, 0.63) | 0.45 (0.27, 0.64) |
| Change (95% CI) | −0.03 (−0.16, 0.09) | −0.12 (−0.26, 0.31) | 0.41 | 0.48 | ||
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HRQoL, health‐related quality of life; SD standard deviation.
From a linear mixed‐effects model with a random intercept.
Adjusted for age and residential status; missing data for age (N = 10) and residential status (N = 173) was imputed using a multiple‐imputation technique.
P for interaction was obtained using a likelihood ratio test for time‐by‐gender interaction, that is to test whether change in outcome from Vg1 to Vg3 was different for boys and girls.
p < .001.