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Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2009 Jun 14;18(6):709–718. doi: 10.1007/s11136-009-9495-x

Table 1.

Univariate comparisons of SF36 subscales and service use by diabetes and hypertension status

	Neither diabetes or hypertension (N = 581)	Diabetes only (N = 118)	Hypertension only (N = 331)	Diabetes and hypertension (N = 132)	P value
SF36 subscales (mean)
1. Physical functioning (PF)	85.49^†^‡	80.39^‡	80.77^*^‡	69.63^*^£^†	<0.0001
2. Role-physical (RP)	86.40^£^†^‡	74.44^*	78.34^*^‡	64.20^*^†	<0.0001
3. Bodily pain (BP)	79.97^£^†^‡	71.13^*	71.01^*	64.20^*	<0.0001
4. General health (GH)	72.50^£^†^‡	62.91^*^‡	63.62^*^‡	50.32^*^£^†	<0.0001
5. Vitality (VT)	69.86^£^†^‡	63.97^*	63.07^*	61.76^*	<0.0001
6. Social function (SF)	83.72^‡	80.98	79.29	74.53^*	0.0007
7. Role-emotional (RE)	89.15^‡	88.32^‡	86.58^‡	78.54^*^£^†	0.0023
8. Mental health (MH)	82.18^†^‡	81.71	78.63^*	76.78^*	0.0013
Help seeking (%)
Biomedical service use for a physical health problem	53.11^£^‡	76.07^*^†	58.66^£^‡	71.97^*^†	0.0003
Traditional healing use for a physical health problem	17.19	23.68	19.44	23.66	0.1995

Significantly different from no diabetes and hypertension

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Significantly different from diabetes only

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Significantly different from hypertension only

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Significantly different from diabetes and hypertension