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Table 4
Correlation of domains of tonsil and adenoids health status instrument. Tested by Pearson’s correlation
coefficient (*significant if <1).

Airway and Healthcare Eating and Cost of Total
Infection Behavior
breathing utilization swallowing care score
Airway and (0.872) .578** .655** .371** .627** .293** .850**
breathing
Infection (0.938) .928** .507** .810** .202* .843**

Healthcare
utilization (0.942) .511** .814** 0.175 .894**
Eating and (0.744) .487** 0.118 .572**
swallowing
Cost of care 0.107 .773**

Behavior .356**

Total score (0.946)

** Significant correlation at the 0.01 level (bilateral).
* Significant correlation at the 0.05 level (bilateral).

Table 5
Comparisons of tonsil and adenoids health status instrument among cases and control. Tested by Mann-
Whitney u test

Control group Intervention group
Subscales EP-TAHSI Z-score p-value
(n=49) (n=51)
Airway and breathing
Range 0-2 0-4 -7.323 0,000
Average ± SD 0.495 ±0.509 2.25 ±1.00
Infection
Range 0-2 0-4 -7.328 0,000
Average ± SD 0.088 ±0.310 1.78 ±1.261
Healthcare utilization
Range 0-2 0-4 -7.934 0,000
Average ± SD 0.041 ±0.193 1.544 ±1.168
Eating and swallowing
Range 0-3 0-4 -4.538 0,000
Average ± SD 0.316 ±0.592 1.353 ±1.254
Cost of care
Range 0-1 0-4 -6.616 0,000
Average ± SD 0.061 ±0.242 1.412 ±1.220
Behavior
Range 0-2 0-4 -2.361 0,018
Average ± SD 0.388 ±0.786 1.00 ±1.442
Total score
Range 0-18 4-58 -8.395 0,000
Average ± SD 3.490 ±3.150 25.628 ±12.955
EP – European Portuguese; SD (Standard Deviation); P (p value); Z (Standard Score). (* significant at p value ≤ 0.05).

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