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Table 3 Prevalence of normal/poor (at risk status for impaired) QOL by gender*

From: Profile of subjective quality of life and its correlates in a nation-wide sample of high school students in an Arab setting using the WHOQOL-Bref

 

All study participants

Boys' QOL

Girls' QOL

Statistics

QOL Domains

Normal

%

Poor

%

Age adjusted

**[95% C.I.]

Normal

%

Poor

%

Age adjusted

**[95% C.I.]

Normal

%

Poor

%

Age adjusted**

[95% C.I.]

Plevel

Boys vs.

Girls

Physical health

N = 4276;

Boys 2073

Girls 2203

82.1

17.9

21.1

[20.9-21.3]

85.4

14.6

15.9

[15.7 - 16.1]

79.0

21.0

27.1

[26.8-27.4]

0.0001

Psycholo-gical

N = 4322

Boys 2091

84.2

15.8

19.2

[19.0 - 19.4

88.1

11.9

12.9

[12.7 - 13.1]

80.5

19.5

25.5

[25.2-25.8]

0.0001

Social relations

N = 4273

Boys 2091

81.2

18.8

20.1

[19.9 - 20.3]

82.5

17.5

17.8

[17.6 - 18.0]

80.0

20.0

23.7

[23.4-23.9]

0.035

Environ-ment

N = 4223

Boys 2031

84.3

15.7

18.7

[18.5 - 18.9]

87.7

12.3

15.7

[15.5 - 15.9]

81.2

18.8

21.5

[21.3-21.8]

0.0001

General facet

N = 4456

Boys 2164

87.1

12.9

15.9

[15.8 - 16.1]

88.8

11.2

13.4

[13.2 - 13.6]

85.6

14.4

18.2

[17.9-18.4]

0.0001

  1. * As defined by scores < 1SD population mean (see last row of Table 2 by gender) for each domain
  2. ** Prevalence rates were adjusted to the 2007 Kuwaiti population to estimate the number of children with at risk status for poor QOL at the ages that were studied in the general population