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Table 3 Global quality of life (QOLS) according to severity of NVP among the total population and selected sub-populations of study participants

From: The burden of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: severe impacts on quality of life, daily life functioning and willingness to become pregnant again – results from a cross-sectional study

QOLS

PUQE

Total

Mild

Moderate

Severe

p-valuea

Mean of total score (95% CI)

Mean of total score (95% CI)

Mean of total score (95% CI)

Mean of total score (95% CI)

 

Total study population (n = 712)

 QOLS score

76.3 (74.5–78.0)

80.1 (75.7–84.4)

75.3 (73.7–77.0)

73.4 (71.0–75.8)

0.03

Pregnant at time of participation (n = 447)

 QOLS score

72.0 (70.4–73.7)

80.3 (74.9–85.8)

72.5 (70.6–74.4)

67.2 (63.7–70.8)

< 0.001

Pregnant and experiencing NVP at time of participation (n = 286)

 QOLS score

68.1 (66.0–70.2)

73.3 (68.9–77.6)

67.0 (64.4–69.5)

63.6 (56.2–71.0)

< 0.001

New mother at time of participation (n = 264)

 QOLS score

80.5 (78.5–82.5)

79.4 (72.2–86.6)

81.3 (78.8–83.8)

79.6 (75.9–83.2)

0.69

  1. Abbreviations: QOLS, Quality of life scale; CI, confidence interval; PUQE, 24 h Pregnancy-Unique Quantification of Emesis. QOLS score among women in the general Norwegian population was 85 [14]
  2. aANOVA. Bold p-values indicate statistically significant differences between the groups