Table II.
Caregiver HRQOL in an Obese, Treatment-seeking Sample and Comparison Groups
| Caregivers (N = 120) | SF-36 US “Healthy” norms (N = 2,474) |
Nontreatment seeking (N = 89) |
Treatment seeking (N = 312) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF-36 | M (SD) | M (SD) | Z | d | M (SD) | Z | d | M (SD) | Z | d |
| Physical functioning | 74.3 (26.8) | 84.2 (23.3) | −3.99*** | 39 | 78.7 (29.6) | −1.11 | 16 | 72.2 (25.4) | 0.74 | 08 |
| Role-Physical | 78.3 (34.3) | 80.9 (34.0) | −0.80 | 08 | 77.4 (34.6) | 0.19 | 03 | 69.7 (37.2) | 2.29* | 24 |
| Bodily pain | 66.6 (25.6) | 75.2 (23.7) | −3.63*** | 35 | 67.4 (18.0) | −0.28 | 04 | 53.1 (26.5) | 4.85*** | 52 |
| General health | 62.6 (19.9) | 71.9 (20.3) | −5.02*** | 46 | 71.1 (16.8) | −3.36*** | 46 | 63.4 (20.2) | −0.39 | 04 |
| Vitality | 54.0 (18.4) | 60.9 (20.9) | −3.96*** | 35 | 57.6 (19.2) | −1.35 | 19 | 45.3 (21.0) | 4.24*** | 44 |
| Social functioning | 77.7 (23.8) | 83.3 (22.7) | −2.51** | 24 | 79.7 (23.8) | −0.60 | 08 | 76.8 (25.1) | 0.35 | 04 |
| Role-Emotional | 76.1 (36.7) | 81.3 (33.0) | −1.52 | 15 | 73.1 (39.2) | 0.56 | 08 | 73.3 (37.2) | 0.71 | 08 |
| Mental health | 70.4 (17.0) | 74.7 (18.1) | −2.71** | 24 | 68.5 (21.0) | 0.69 | 10 | 68.1 (18.5) | 1.21 | 13 |
| Physical health composite scale | 48.2 (10.3) | 50.0 (10.0) | −1.93* | 18 | ||||||
| Mental health composite scale | 47.7 (10.3) | 50.0 (10.0) | −2.38* | 23 | ||||||
Z-values are significant at *p <.05; **p <.01; ***p <.001.
The current sample was comparable to the nontreatment seeking and treatment seeking, obese samples on anthropometric (e.g., MBMI = 35.8, 32.5, 38.1), and demographic variables (e.g. Mage = 40.1, 36.4, 39.0; percentage of females = 83.3, 82.0, 73.7), respectively. All samples were without chronic illness not secondary to obesity and had comparable levels of SES.