Psychosocial Profile in Portuguese Adolescents with Chronic Disease Attending an Outpatient Department in a Hospital Setting

Table 3

Differences between the groups of adolescents with diverse chronic diseases for all psychosocial variables.

	Total	Subgroups of Chronic Diseases
		Diabetes	Allergology	Neuropathology	p
	N=135	N=43	N=63	N=29
KIDS-10 (M±SD)^1	79.7±12.5	79.9±13.0	79.7±12.7	79.2±11.6	0.976
SCL (M±SD)^1	35.6±4.8	35.3±4.3	36.1±5.0	35.0±5.2	0,536
SCL-MC (M±SD)^2	0.67±1.18	0.60±1.2	0.54±1.1	1.07±1.3	0.047
RES (M±SD)^1	58.4±7.8	60.3±7.1	58.1±7.9	56.1±8.3	0.074
SR (M±SD)^1	120.0±14.4	124.7±15.6	117.5±14.7	118.2±9.8	0.030
SR-ST	41.8±6.8	44.2±7.0	40.5±6.7	41.1±6.0	0.019
SR-LT	50.2±7.7	51.6±8.1	49.6±8.0	49.5±6.2	0.345
SSSS (M±SD)^1	45.1±8.6	45.6±9.4	45.0±8.1	44.4±8.9	0.860
NASS	15.8±4.7	16.0±5.2	16.0±4.1	15.1±5.0	0.652
SSS	29.1±5.4	29.6±5.3	28.7±5.6	29.3±5.2	0.711

SCL: Symptoms Check List; SCL-MC: Symptoms Check List Multiple Complaints; KIDS-10: KIDSCREEN; RES: Resilience; SR: Self-regulation; SR-ST: Self-regulation, Short Term; SR-LT: Self-regulation, Long Term; SSSS: Scale of Satisfaction with Social Support; NASS: Need for Activities connected to social support; SSS: Satisfaction with social support.
¹Tested by ANOVA followed by Bonferroni Post Hoc Test.
²Tested by Kruskal-Wallis.