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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2011 Apr 3;20(10):1655–1662. doi: 10.1007/s11136-011-9896-5

Table 2.

Factors associated with health-related quality-of-life scores in multivariable linear regression analyses

HUI3a
SF-6D
eQWB
Effect estimate (95% CI) P value η 2 Effect estimate (95% CI) P value η 2 Effect estimate (95% CI) P value η 2
Age per 10 years 0.041 (−0.061, 0.153) 0.449 0.002 0.007 (−0.007, 0.020) 0.342 0.002 −0.004 (−0.011, 0.002) 0.218 0.004
Race (Non-White) 0.112 (−0.138, 0.435) 0.414 0.002 0.010 (−0.017, 0.036) 0.468 0.001 0.017 (0.001, 0.034) 0.042 0.011
Household income NA NA 0.173 0.011
 <$40,000 Reference
 $40,000–$99,999 0.014 (−0.002, 0.030)
 $100,000 or more 0.003 (−0.018, 0.025)
Body mass index (kg/m2) −0.028 (−0.046, −0.010) 0.003 0.025 NA −0.002 (−0.003, −0.001) <0.001 0.031
Weekly UI episode frequencyb −0.010 (−0.025, 0.004) 0.155 0.006 −0.003 (−0.004, −0.001) <0.001 0.030 −0.001 (−0.002, −0.0002) 0.015 0.016
Current smoking −0.346 (−0.576, 0.011) 0.057 0.010 NA NA
Hysterectomy −0.243 (−0.398, −0.048) 0.018 0.016 NA NA
Fecal incontinence −0.230 (−0.442, 0.064) 0.114 0.007 −0.044 (−0.078, −0.010) 0.012 0.017 −0.017 (−0.038, 0.005) 0.124 0.006
Physical activity (kcals expended per day NA 0.002* 0.028 0.010* 0.017
 1st quartile (range 0,112) Reference Reference
 2nd quartile (range 140, 364) 0.016 (−0.014, 0.045) 0.007 (−0.011, 0.025)
 3rd quartile (range 392, 1,078) 0.020 (−0.009, 0.049) 0.018 (0.0001, 0.036)
4th quartile (range 1,092, 7,841) 0.047 (0.018, 0.077) 0.022 (0.003, 0.040)
Pelvic organ prolapse surgery NA NA −0.026 (−0.059, 0.007) 0.123 0.006
Post-menopausal NA 0.021 (−0.007, 0.049) 0.136 0.006 NA

Analyses controlled for clinic site, NA indicates that variable was not included in the final multivariable model, HUI3 Health Utilities Index Mark 3, eQWB estimated Quality of Well-Being score

a

Log transformation applied; effect on the outcome is expressed as proportional change in HUI3

b

Log transformation applied; estimate coefficient is per 10% increase in weekly UI episode frequency

*

P value is for the trend

η2 statistic indicates the proportion of variance explained by each variable independently in the multivariable model