Deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adolescents’ mental health, Quality of Life and communication

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Comparison of DHH, HH and TH children's mental health (means and SD) based on multiply imputed data

		DHH²		HH²		TH (van Roy et al. [58, 59])¹	DHH – TH⁵		HH – TH⁶
	n	M (SD)	n	M (SD)	n	M (SD)	95% CI	p	95% CI	p
SDQ-NOR	48	12.05(6.40)	37	10.98 (6.81)	29,426	10.65 (5.5)³	-.46 to 3.26	.137	-1.94 to 2.60	.770
SDQ-NSL	48	13.24 (6.61)		N/A		N/A	.67 to 4.51	.009	N/A	N/A
SDQ P	59	7.25 (5.97)	47	6.48(5.60)	8517	6.15 (5.0)⁴	-.46 to 2.66	.163	-1.32 to 1.98	.689

SDQ Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; range of total score 0–40; SDQ-NSL: SDQ self-report in Norwegian Sign Language. SDQ-NOR: SDQ self-report in written Norwegian. N/A: not applicable
¹ TH SDQ total scores from other authors community studies
² No significant differences between DHH and HH based on linear regression analysis with mental health as dependent variable and group (DHH/HH) as independent variable. Regression analyses are adjusted for age and gender and based on multiply imputed data
³ Community sample self-report [58]; n = 29,426; age range 8 to 16
⁴ Community sample parent-report [59]; n = 8517; age range 10 to 13
⁵ T-tests not assuming equal variances for differences between DHH and TH; TH data on the SDQ-NOR were used for comparison with the DHH children on both the SDQ-NOR and SDQ-NSL
⁶ T-tests not assuming equal variances for differences between HH and TH

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