Table 6.
Descriptive statistics and Mann–Whitney test results comparing the scores of healthy and sick cats for each of the three domains (vitality, comfort and emotional wellbeing [EWB])
| Domain | Number of cats | Mean ± SD | IQR | Median | Mann–Whitney difference in median (healthy – unwell) |
P value | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | |||||||
| Healthy | 36 | 3.30 ± 0.53 | 0.84 | 3.37 | 1.04 | <0.001 | 0.71–1.32 |
| Sick | 58 | 2.32 ± 0.75 | 1.08 | 2.23 | |||
| Comfort | |||||||
| Healthy | 36 | 5.90 ± 0.20 | 0.23 | 6.00 | 0.63 | <0.001 | 0.40–0.98 |
| Sick | 58 | 5.06 ± 0.73 | 1.06 | 5.25 | |||
| EWB | |||||||
| Healthy | 36 | 3.73 ± 0.32 | 0.45 | 3.87 | 0.56 | <0.001 | 0.33–0.77 |
| Sick | 58 | 3.15 ± 0.63 | 0.83 | ||||
IQR = interquartile range; CI = confidence interval