Table 4.
Mean values and standard deviations (SD) of 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire scales of surgically treated AE patients (n = 25).
| SF scale | mean ± SD |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRQoL after surgery changed (n = 13) | HRQoL after surgery not changed (n = 12) | ||
| Physical functioning | 76.92 ± 20.46 | 87.08 ± 21.15 | 0.2355 |
| Role limitations due to physical health | 51.92 ± 48.37 | 87.50 ± 29.19 | 0.0362⁎ |
| Bodily pain | 57.69 ± 19.83 | 90.58 ± 19.34 | 0.0003⁎ |
| General health | 52.69 ± 19.77 | 70.41 ± 24.40 | 0.0602 |
| Energy/fatigue | 51.92 ± 18.08 | 61.66 ± 18.13 | 0.1922 |
| Social functioning | 68.26 ± 25.82 | 88.54 ± 12.45 | 0.0212 |
| Role limitations due to emotional problems | 56.41 ± 47.88 | 91.66 ± 20.71 | 0.0273⁎ |
| Emotional well-being | 66.46 ± 21.45 | 73.66 ± 16.13 | 0.3505 |
| Physical summary score | 43.13 ± 8.80 | 52.47 ± 8.89 | 0.0149⁎ |
| Mental summary score | 44.31 ± 12.75 | 50.61 ± 7.47 | 0.1446 |
⁎
Statistically significant with p < 0.05.