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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008 Jul 15;56(8):1543–1548. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01805.x

Table 3.

Medical Outcomes Study 12-item Short Form Survey (SF-12) Scores for Older Non-Hispanic White and Vietnamese Respondents

SF-12 Domain Older Non-Hispanic White Adults Older Vietnamese Adults Adjusted P-Value*
Mean
General health perceptions 50.2 38.5 <.001
Physical functioning 50.4 46.3 .003
Role-physical 50.3 47.3 .03
Role-emotional 50.1 45.2 .002
Bodily pain 50.4 46.1 .03
Mental health 50.2 44.0 .002
Vitality 50.2 48.5 .95
Social functioning 50.1 44.3 < .001

Note: Scores range between 0 (lowest) and 100 (highest), with higher scores representing better health. Means transformed using standard T-score metric relative to the U.S. general population.

The sample size was larger for general health perceptions (N = 25,517; Non-Hispanic white, n = 25,158; Vietnamese, n = 359) because this survey item was include in both the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2001 and 2003, but the remaining survey items were included only in the CHIS 2003 (N = 13,919).

*

Regression analyses were adjusted for age, sex, and education.