Table 6.
Longitudinal analyses between disability, societal costs, healthcare costs, and health-related quality of life among women
Results disability | Crude | Adjusted | ||||
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Disability ODI (0–100) | Beta | 95% CI | Beta | 95% CI | ||
Lower bound | Upper bound | Lower bound | Upper bound | |||
Total costs-societal perspectivea | 25 | 21 | 30 | 18 | 15 | 22 |
Total costs-health care perspectiveb | 11 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
Health-related quality of lifec | − 0.0096 | − 0.0099 | − 0.0094 |
Scores for health-related quality of life were transformed to a range of 0–100 to enable comparability
aAdjusted for health-related quality of life, physical health, MPI life control, MPI_Inteference, MPI_Pain severity, mental health, disability
bAdjusted for physical health (SF-36), pain impact experience (MPI interference), health-related quality of life (EQ-5D)
cNo confounding factors; none of the confounders changed the regression co-efficient by more than 10%