Coping with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome: quality of life and psychosocial features of family carers

Table 4 Comparisons between the caregivers and primary care sample for the WHOQOL-BREF

WHOQOL-BREF	Caregivers^a		Primary care Sample^b		Mean differences	Effect size (g) a vs. b
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
	(n = 22)		(n = 1241)
Overall QoL	2.95	0.79	2.9	0.9	0.05	–
Physical domain	65.58	15.61	44.8	17.4	a > b^***	1.20
Psychological domain	61.17	16.93	54.2	17.2	7.00	–
Social relationships	53.03	17.55	50.0	20.7	4.44	–
Environment	60.31	11.52	56.1	14.8	4.21	–

SD standard deviation. Higher scores indicate higher QoL. ^***p < 0.001. Hedge’ g are designated as small (0.20), medium (0.50), and large (0.80). ^aCaregiver sample of this current study ^b Primary care sample findings as published by González et al. [50]

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