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Table 4.

Means (Analysis of Variance) and Adjusted means (Analysis of Covariance with control variables age and gender) of the 'use of health services variables' for the 5 functioning indexes

Variables	SORM		SCR		SL		MSCR		MSORM
	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean
Physician visits
Yes	5.13***	4.94***	2.45***	2.41*	0.75***	0.68***	0.17***	0.15*	0.71***	0.65***
No	3.88	4.07	2.18	2.21	0.25	0.32	0.07	0.09	0.34	0.40
Use of medicines
Yes	4.87***	4.51***	2.37***	2.28*	0.61***	0.45***	0.16***	0.11*	0.68***	0.57***
No	3.33	3.70	2.06	2.15	0.07	0.23	0.01	0.06	0.14	0.26
Hospitalization
Yes	5.40***	5.16***	2.60***	2.55**	0.81***	0.71***	0.22***	0.19**	0.82***	0.74***
No	3.95	4.19	2.18	2.23	0.28	0.38	0.07	0.10	0.36	0.44
Use of health serv. Index
1+	4.34***	4.07***	2.27**	2.21^NS	0.41 ***	0.30^NS	0.11 ***	0.08^NS	0.50***	0.41***
0	3.33	3.60	2.08	2.21	0.09	0.20	0.01	0.05	0.10	0.19

*** p ≤ 0.001, ** p ≤ 0.01, *p ≤ 0.05, NS = non statistically significant