Table 2.

Number of participants who increased or decreased their EQ-VAS self report by 5 points or more after exposure to either good or poor health state descriptors as well as after both sets of descriptors.

	Group 1 n = 77			Group 2 n = 74
	Number (%) Increase ≥5 points	Number (%) Decrease ≥5 points	Number (%) Either direction ≥5points	Number (%) Increase ≥5 points	Number (%) Decrease ≥5 points	Number (%) Either direction ≥5points
Good health descriptors (Description-A)	29 (38%)	24 (31%)	53 (69%)	11 (15%)	25 (34%)	36 (49%)
Poor health descriptors (Description-B)	37 (48%)	14 (18%)	51 (66%)	45 (61%)	8 (11%)	53 (72%)
After both Description A and B (compared with baseline EQ-VAS)	39 (51%)	12 (16%)	51 (66%)	40 (54%)	15 (20%)	55 (74%)