Table 2.
Health-related quality of life of the study participants and comparison with Canadian normative data (n = 197)
| Mean score†(SD) | 95% CI |
SF-36 Canadian normative data‡ (Mean and SD) |
95% CI | |
| SF-36 | ||||
| Physical functioning | 24.3 (17.9)* | 21.8 – 26.8 | 75.7 (22.2) | 74.9 – 76.5 |
| Role-physical | 39.3 (25.6)* | 35.7 – 42.9 | 76.2 (36.5) | 74.9 – 77.5 |
| Bodily pain | 27.5 (11.7)* | 25.8 – 29.1 | 74.0 (23.9) | 73.1 – 74.8 |
| General health | 37.1 (10.4)* | 35.6 – 38.6 | 73.5 (18.4) | 72.8 – 74.1 |
| Vitality | 39.5 (13.4)* | 37.6 – 41.4 | 67.7 (18.1) | 67.0 – 68.3 |
| Social functioning§ | 40.9 (15.2)* | 38.8 – 43.0 | 87.0 (19.8) | 86.2 – 87.7 |
| Role-emotional§ | 69.8 (26.3)* | 66.1 – 73.5 | 83.4 (32.8) | 82.2 – 84.6 |
| Mental health§ | 53.4 (11.4)* | 51.8 – 55.0 | 79.3 (15.0) | 78.8 – 79.8 |
| Physical component scale (PCS)§ | 28.2 (6.4)* | 27.3 – 29.1 | 47.2 (9.7) | 46.8 – 47.6 |
| Mental component scale (MCS)§ | 42.9 (8.1)* | 41.7 – 44.0 | 53.7 (8.3) | 53.4 – 54.0 |
† A higher score signs a better health-related quality of life
‡ Age matched normative data
§ n = 196
* Significantly lower (worse) than the Canadian normative data, p < 0.05