Table 3. Pairwise comparisons of well-being (subjective health and depressive symptoms) within locked-in-related patterns over time (based on estimated marginal means). Mean differences, standard errors, and Cohen’s effect sizes are presented.
Locked-in-related patterns | Stable patterns | Negative change patterns | Positive change patterns | ||||||
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NL–NL (N = 2088) | LI–LI (N = 81) | RL–RL (N = 365) | NL–LI (N = 78) | NL–RL (N = 316) | RL–LI (N = 73) | LI–NL (N = 69) | LI–RL (N = 73) | RL–NL (N = 348) | |
Multivariate (F) Pillai’s trace | 23.94*** | 0.82 | 12.25*** | 11.98*** | 2.67 | 4.29* | 13.88*** | 13.12*** | 22.04*** |
Subjective health | |||||||||
Mean difference (Τ2–Τ1) | 0.03 | −0.10 | −0.01 | −0.36*** | −0.02 | −0.10 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.19*** |
Standard error | 0.016 | 0.082 | 0.037 | 0.080 | 0.040 | 0.083 | 0.087 | 0.085 | 0.038 |
Effect size (d) | 0.51 | 0.22 | 0.27 | ||||||
Depressive symptoms | |||||||||
Mean difference (Τ2–Τ1) | −0.11*** | 0.02 | −0.18*** | 0.25** | −0.08* | 0.25** | −0.47*** | −0.45*** | −0.22*** |
Standard error | 0.016 | 0.084 | 0.038 | 0.082 | 0.041 | 0.085 | 0.089 | 0.088 | 0.039 |
Effect size (d) | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.35 | 0.11 | 0.34 | 0.63 | 0.60 | 0.30 |
Note: Non-locked-in (NL), risk of locked-in (RL), and locked-in (LI).
*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.