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

BMC Psychiatry

Table 7 Linear regression with QoL as dependent variables, HL, language skills or communicative competence added one at a time as covariates based on multiply imputed data

		Degree of HL				Spoken Language Skills				Sign Language Skills				CCC-2
	n	ß	95% CI	p	n	ß	95% CI	p	n	ß	95% CI	p	n	ß	95% CI	p
ILC-NOR	106	.20	-.02 to .06	.344	106	.08	-.59 to .75	.806	59	*.60*	*.01 to 1.18*	*.05*	97	.02	-.03 to .07	.396
ILC-NSL	59	.02	-.05 to .09	.596	59	.43	-.59 to 1.46	.392	59	.51	-.37 to 1.38	.238	53	.05	-.02 to .13	.141
ILC-P	106	.02	-.02 to .05	.420	106	.53	-.17 to 1.24	.136	59	.31	-.47 to 1.09	.414	97	.10	.06 to .14	< .001

ILC: The Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents; QoL score LQ_0-28: range 0–28, 28 = high QoL; ILC-NSL: ILC self-report in NSL
ILC-NOR: ILC self-report in written Norwegian; ILC-P: parent-report
CCC-2: General Communication Composite of the Children's Communication Checklist Second Edition (GCC)
All analyses are adjusted for age and gender. ß regression coefficient

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