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Original Articles

Low health-related quality of life in school-aged children in Tonga, a lower-middle income country in the South Pacific

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Article: 24896 | Received 11 May 2014, Accepted 15 Jul 2014, Published online: 20 Aug 2014

Figures & data

Table 1 Basic characteristics of the participants in Tonga

Table 2 Self-rated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and subdomains of HRQoL by socio-demography in 11–18 year old school children in Tonga

Table 3 Basic characteristics of the community-based comparison group

Fig. 1 Comparison of self-rated, health-related quality of Life (HRQoL) and subdomains of HRQoL between community based samples of school-aged children in Tonga (grey stippled line, open circle) and in 12 high-income countries (black lines), six upper-middle income countries (grey lines), and one lower-middle income country (grey stippled line, closed circle) (adapted from Refs. (Citation6, Citation13Citation15, Citation21Citation35)). HRQoL is assessed by the PedsQL 4.0 in all samples.

Fig. 1 Comparison of self-rated, health-related quality of Life (HRQoL) and subdomains of HRQoL between community based samples of school-aged children in Tonga (grey stippled line, open circle) and in 12 high-income countries (black lines), six upper-middle income countries (grey lines), and one lower-middle income country (grey stippled line, closed circle) (adapted from Refs. (Citation6, Citation13–Citation15, Citation21–Citation35)). HRQoL is assessed by the PedsQL 4.0 in all samples.

Table 4 Comparison of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and subdomains of HRQoL, in 2,123a Tongan secondary school children in Tonga and 830 Tongans in New Zealand (NZ), by age groups and sex