| Private (61.5%, n = 599) |
Publicly funded by Alberta Health Servicesa (27.6%, n = 269) |
Publicly funded by a Primary Care Networkb (11.6%, n = 106) |
P-value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Percent (95% Confidence Interval) | |||
| Affected Joint | 0.12 | |||
| Hip | 28.4 (24.9–32.1) |
35.3 (29.8–41.2) |
31.1 (23.0–40.6) |
|
| Knee | 71.6 (67.9–75.1) |
64.7 (58.8–70.2) |
68.9 (59.4–77.0) |
|
| Sex | 0.51 | |||
| Female | 76.1 (72.5–79.3) |
78.8 (73.5–83.3) |
73.6 (64.3–81.1) |
|
| Male | 23.9 (20.7–27.5) |
21.2 (16.7–26.5) |
26.4 (18.9–35.7) |
|
| Marital Status | 0.48 | |||
| Married, common-law | 77.3 (73.8–80.5) |
74.6 (69.1–79.5) |
72.6 (63.3–80.3) |
|
| Single, separated, divorced, widowed | 22.7 (19.5–26.2) |
25.4 (20.5–30.9) |
27.4 (19.7–36.7) |
|
| Education | <0.001 | |||
| High school diploma or less | 15.7 (12.9–19.0) |
27.1 (21.9–32.9) |
28.7 (20.7–38.3) |
|
| College or trade school | 30.3 (26.6–34.2) |
42.6 (36.6–48.9) |
30.7 (22.4–40.4) |
|
| University degree | 54.1 (49.9–58.2) |
30.3 (24.9–36.3) |
40.6 (31.4–50.5) |
|
| Employment Status | <0.001 | |||
| Not currently working | 67.4 (63.4–71.1) |
71.0 (65.1–76.2) |
88.2 (80.4–93.2) |
|
| Currently working | 32.6 (28.9–36.6) |
29.0 (23.8–34.9) |
11.8 (6.8–19.6) |
|
| Characteristics | Mean (Standard Deviation) | |||
| Age, years | 64.3 (7.6) |
66.4 (8.8) |
66.6 (9.3) |
<0.001 |
| BMI | 30.5 (6.4) |
31.5 (6.8) |
33.7 (8.3) |
<0.001 |
| Baseline Outcomes | Mean (Standard Deviation) | |||
| HOOS/KOOS | ||||
| Pain | 53.4 (15.5) | 54.3 (15.8) | 51.8 (14.4) | 0.41 |
| Quality of life | 36.3 (17.8) | 38.7 (19.1) | 38.9 (19.5) | 0.13 |
| Health-related quality-of-life, EQ-5D-5L | 0.7 (0.2) |
0.7 (0.2) |
0.7 (0.2) |
0.11 |
| 30 s chair stand, (count) | 13.3 (6.2) |
11.3 (5.7) |
12.1 (5.2) |
0.004 |
| 40 m walk test (sec) | 33.9 (17.6) |
35.8 (21.4) |
30.9 (11.2) |
0.25 |
a Publicly funded at outpatient physiotherapy.
b Publicly funded at community-based primary care centres.