Symptom scores of ARM patients and CDH patients compared with reference scores
| Age class | ARM patients | CDH patients | Reference group | Symptom score difference with ref. group (95% CI†) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean age | Mean score (SD) | n | Mean age | Mean score (SD) | n | Mean age | ARM | CDH | |
| A missing value analysis (using an expectation-maximisation algorithm) was performed for 79 (16%) of all 503 calculated symptom scores. | ||||||||||
| †95% confidence interval for the difference between the group means. | ||||||||||
| ‡Difference not tested (because of small sample size). | ||||||||||
| *Significant at p < 0.05. | ||||||||||
| ***Significant at p < 0.001. | ||||||||||
| 1–4 y | 40 | 2.7 | 5.9 (3.3) | 20 | 2.9 | 7.3 (6.1) | 18 | 3.0 | 3.5 (1.7 to 5.3)*** | 1.6 (−2.6 to 5.8) |
| 5–10 y | 67 | 7.2 | 4.2 (3.1) | 23 | 8.0 | 7.5 (7.4) | 22 | 7.3 | 2.9 (1.5 to 4.3)*** | 2.4 (−1.4 to 6.2) |
| 11–15 y | 52 | 12.9 | 3.8 (2.9) | 16 | 13.5 | 5.9 (5.1) | 11 | 12.9 | 3.2 (1.4 to 5.0)*** | 2.1 (−1.4 to 5.6) |
| ⩾16 y | 127 | 23.8 | 2.7 (2.5) | 52 | 21.8 | 7.1 (5.4) | 2 | 17.0 | 2.7‡ | 4.3‡ |
| Total | 286 | 15.0 | 3.7 (3.0) | 111 | 14.3 | 7.0 (5.9) | 53 | 7.4 | 2.2 (1.4 to 3.1)*** | 2.1 (0.2 to 3.9)* |