Table 2

Mean health-related quality of life scores of Finnish and Australian adolescents before and after the transfer of care; higher scores mean better quality of life

	Before transfer of care, mean			One year after transfer of care, mean
	All	FIN	AUS	All	FIN	AUS
PedsQL (N)	(487–488)	(252)	(235–236)	(334–335)	(199)	(135–136)
Total	76.5	80.6	72.2	78.3	80.1	75.7*
Physical	79.5	85.1	73.4	79.9	84.3	73.5
Psychosocial	74.9	78.2	71.4	77.5*	77.9	76.8*†
Emotional	71.2	74.1	68	72.6	72.4	72.8
Social	83.8	88	79.4	86.8*	88.9	83.7*
School	69.5	72.3	66.6	73.0*	72.4	73.9*
16D (N)	(486–493)	−251	(235–242)	(329–336)	−199	(130–137)
Total	0.866	0.905	0.825	0.868	0.894	0.829
Vitality	0.779	0.811	0.745	0.763‡	0.774‡	0.748
Vision	0.927	0.935	0.919	0.931	0.941	0.915
Breathing	0.85	0.941	0.756	0.868‡	0.949	0.75
Distress	0.717	0.792	0.639	0.712	0.751‡§	0.656‡
Hearing	0.969	0.976	0.961	0.966	0.97	0.96
Sleeping	0.762	0.816	0.706	0.764	0.801‡	0.71
Eating	0.981	0.995	0.967	0.985	0.996	0.969
Discomfort and symptoms	0.795	0.827	0.761	0.798	0.826	0.758
Speech	0.928	0.951	0.903	0.943‡	0.963	0.915
Physical appearance	0.774	0.862	0.683	0.771	0.846‡	0.661‡
School and hobbies	0.814	0.855	0.771	0.82	0.846	0.782
Mobility	0.972	0.989	0.953	0.967	0.985	0.941
Friends	0.877	0.949	0.801	0.883	0.924‡§	0.824‡
Mental function	0.918	0.947	0.888	0.914	0.928‡	0.893
Excretion	0.896	0.911	0.88	0.879‡	0.897	0.852‡
Depression	0.806	0.832	0.778	0.791‡	0.812‡	0.761‡

*Statistically significant change for better (p<0.05, Wilcoxon signed-rank test).
†Change is more than the minimal clinically important difference (online supplemental file 2).10 22
‡Change is more than the minimum important change, that is, at least ±0.015.25
§Statistically significant change for worse (p<0.05, Wilcoxon signed-rank test).
AUS, Australia; FIN, Finland; PedsQL, Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory.