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Table 2 Characteristics of condition groups (N=182)a

From: The Youth Health Care measure-satisfaction, utilization, and needs (YHC-SUN)-development of a self-report version of the Child Health Care (CHC-SUN) proxy-measure

Diagnoses

Age mean

Age SD

Age range

Further information

Diabetes (n=45)

18.5

2.4

16–25

- mean duration of illness 7.7 [SD 5.2] ys

- 20 (44 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition on average 3.6 years ago.

Multiple sclerosis (n=33)

20.5

2.3

16–25

- mean duration of illness 2.0 [SD 1.5] ys

- 2 (6 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition on average 6.1 years ago

Chronic conditions associated with gastrointestinal symptoms (n=28)

20.3

1.8

16–25

- mean duration of illness 4.0 [SD 3.0] ys

- 4 (14 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition on average 4.0 years ago

Arthritis (n=19)

17.7

1.5

16–21

- mean duration of illness 7.4 [SD 5.5] ys

- 11 (58 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition on average 1.7 years ago

Chronic skin conditions (n=14)

19.6

2.7

17–25

- mean duration of illness 13.2 [SD 6.8] ys

- 1 (7 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition 5.8 years ago

Pulmonary conditions (n=13)

19.1

2.6

16–25

- mean duration of illness 17.0 [SD 4.3] ys

- 9 (69 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition on average 1.3 years ago

Other rare chronic conditions (n=30)

19.5

3.2

15–25

- mean duration of illness 12.9 [SD 9.4] ys

- 14 (47 %) in pediatric specialist care

- those who were in adult specialist services had made the transition on average 5.9 years ago