Table 4.
Quality of life in patients with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in three types of primary care practice (N = 1,692)
| Type of primary care practice | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional Medicine | Mixed | Homeopathic | |||||||
| All | Acute1 | Chronic1 | All | Acute | Chronic | All | Acute | Chronic | |
| Quality of life SF-12 | |||||||||
| Mental score 2 | 41.7 | 43.2* | 40.0* | 42.0 | 42.9* | 41.1* | 41.7 | 41.2 | 42.0 |
| Mean (SD) | (10.7) | (9.5) | (11.5) | (10.3) | (10.4) | (10.1) | (9.6) | (9.3) | (9.7) |
| Physical score 2 | 42.4 | 43.4 | 41.3 | 41.9 | 43.1* | 40.7* | 42.8 | 43.6 | 42.3 |
| Mean (SD) | (10.4) | (10.3) | (10.4) | (10.4) | (10.9) | (9.8) | (10.8) | (10.1) | (11.2) |
1 Chronicity defined as duration of the current MSD episode for more than 12 weeks.
2 Adjusted means in covariance analyses including age, sex, presence of co-morbidities and regular treating physician or not.
* Differences between acute and chronic patients statistically significant at p < 0.05.