Does standard phisiotherapy influence the health-related quality of life of JIA patients?
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Methods Clinical trial of a consecutive sample of 26 JIA (ILAR) patients of the Oligoarticular (46,2%), Polyarticular (23,1%) and Systemic (30,7)% subtypes, with an average 11,2±4,1 years of age. The patients participated in a standard physiotherapy program twice a week for 6 months. The Chi-square test has been used in order to evaluate the attendance to the program. The HRQL has been assessed by means of the PedsQL 4.0 and the Kruskal-Wallis test with post hoc the Duunn test has been used in order to compare the median and percentiles (25 and 75) of the scores of these instruments in the baseline and end-of-6-months periods.
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دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011