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. 2012 Jun 18;10:72. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-72

Table 2.

Comparison of the SF-36 derived Health-related Quality of Life domain scores of good and poor sleepers, and comparison among long sleepers (sleep duration ≥5.5 hours per day) and short sleepers (sleep duration <5.5 hours per day)

 
All participants
Good sleepers
Poor sleepers
Long sleepers
Short sleepers
  (n= 301) (n= 67) n= 234) (n= 170) (n= 131)
Physical Functioning
75.91 (17.62)
81.57** (15.13)
74.29 (17.97)
78.65** (15.86)
72.37 (19.16)
Role-Physical
78.76 (22.54)
84.98** (19.37)
76.97 (23.10)
81.98** (20.46)
74.57 (24.43)
Bodily Pain
64.86 (28.45)
79.21*** (22.90)
60.76 (28.59)
71.54*** (25.50)
56.20 (29.80)
General Health
50.24 (19.77)
58.27*** (19.04)
47.94 (19.40)
53.53** (18.68)
45.97 (20.38)
Vitality
61.09 (23.37)
72.57*** (18.49)
57.80 (23.61)
65.91** (21.23)
54.82 (24.58)
Social Functioning
88.08 (22.33)
94.96** (12.51)
86.11 (24.09)
91.25* (17.98)
83.97 (26.46)
Role-Emotional
83.31 (20.47)
89.55** (16.50)
81.52 (21.17)
85.39* (20.12)
80.60 (20.68)
Mental Health 74.25 (18.93) 83.36*** (13.91) 71.65 (19.39) 78.12*** (16.32) 69.24 (20.88)

Data are presented as mean (standard deviation).

*/**/*** Difference between good and poor sleeper significant at the 5%, 1%, and 0.1% level respectively (Hotelling’s T-square test on transformed value that maximizes multivariate normality).

Good sleeper: global PSQI score < 5. Poor sleeper: global PSQI score ≥5.