Table 2.

Bivariate relationships of general health perceptions and overall quality of life at four time-points

	Baseline			3 months			6 months			12 months
	General health	gQoL	QoLS-N	General health	gQoL	QoLS-N	General health	gQoL	QoLS-N	General health	gQoL	QoLS-N
Baseline
General health	446	.32*	.38*	.57*	.27*	.18	.58*	.24	.20	.54*	.22	.24
gQoL		1.25	.42*	.37*	.32*	.23	.36*	.43*	.34*	.35*	.46*	.35*
QoLS-N			104	.28*	.22	.58*	.35*	.30*	.59*	.21	.24	.59*
3 months
General health				354	.55*	.42*	.71*	.39*	.30*	.75*	.46*	.42*
gQoL					.76	.52*	.44*	.53*	.30*	.47*	.54*	.46*
QoLS-N						107	.36*	.37*	.61*	.35*	.37*	.66*
6 months
General health							387	.53*	.54*	.66*	.41*	.51*
gQoL								.81	.57*	.37*	.62*	.42*
QoLS-N									120	.24	.43*	.64*
12 months
General health										453	.43*	.49*
gQoL											.80	.52*
QoLS-N												106

The diagonal (italic) represents variance; the upper diagonal contains Pearson correlation coefficients, asterisks indicate p = 0.01. Common to all three scales, higher scores indicate better health or quality of life.