Childhood heart disease and parental emotional wellbeing: a predictive model to explain the perception of quality of life in children and adolescents

Table 3 Model fit indices for the GLMs models tested

	Heart problems and treatment			Treatment II			Perceived physical appearance			Treatment anxiety			Cognitive problems			Communication
	Wald χ²	df	p	Wald χ²	df	P	Wald χ²	df	p	Wald χ²	df	p	Wald χ²	df	p	Wald χ²	df	p
Intercept	0.19	1	0.666	3.44	1	0.070	7.26	1	0.007	12.79	1	0.001	8.02	1	0.005	1.00	1	0.317
Age	14.78	2	0.001	15.66	2	0.001	11.01	2	0.004				5.52	2	0.063	8.42	2	0.015
CHD diagnosis	107.75	7	0.001				33.11	6	0.001	747.01	7	0.001	234.08	7	0.001	20.96	6	0.002
Surgery										7.87	1	0.005				6.70	1	0.010
Mothers’ Anxiety				15.41	2	0.001				10.02	2	0.007
Fathers’ Anxiety							12.08	2	0.002
Mothers’ Depression	10.58	2	0.005							7.03	2	0.030	7.76	2	0.021
Fathers’ Depression	26.07	2	0.001	4.98	1	0.043										24.65	2	0.001
Deviance	147.37			41.53			150.49			171.42			160.18			163.19
df	198			62			200			199			199			199
deviance/df	0.744			0.670			0.752			0.861			0.805			0.820
LRχ2	26.62			14.99			33.82			26.32			15.34			25.05
df	13			5			11			12			11			12
p	0.014			0.010			0.001			0.010			0.168			0.020

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