Health-Related Quality of Life Is Low in Secondary School Children in Fiji

Table 1

Basic characteristics of the study participants.

	Participants
	N	%
Sex
Girls	4747	53.1
Boys	4200	46.9
Total	8947
Age (years)
12	8	0.1
13	789	8.8
14	1949	21.8
15	1626	18.2
16	2314	25.9
17	1508	16.8
18	753	8.4
Mean age 15.95 (SD 1.41)
Ethnicity
Indigenous Fijian	3725	41.6
Indo-Fijian	4713	52.7
Others	509	5.7
Number in household
1–5 persons	4666	52.2
6–10 persons	3609	40.3
11–16 persons	276	3.1
Unknown	396	4.4
Mean persons/household 5.69 (SD 2.24)
Family situation during school week
Live with 2 parents	6335	70.8
1 parent	1162	13.0
Other adult relatives	931	10.3
At boarding school	318	3.6
None of the above	121	1.4
Unknown	80	0.9

SD: standard deviation.