Factors affecting quality of life in children and adolescents with thalassemia in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Multiple linear regression including predictors found significant by univariate analysis, revealed that only age, and serum ferritin remained significantly associated with mean HRQoL ( p =0.015, and p =0.003), while transfusion frequency was just barely significant ( p =0.05) for child’s report.

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The parent proxy reports, showed a lower mean HRQoL scores than their child’s reports in all domains and in the mean scores, with highly significant differences in physical and emotional functioning and mean scores ( Table 2 ).

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