Table 2.

Self-perceived general health, pain, and depression at 1 year and 5 years post-stroke, compared with the Wilcoxon signed rank test.

	1 year post-stroke	5 years post-stroke	P value
How would you rate your general health? n (%)a			0.034
Very good	94 (24.9)	74 (19.6)
Fairly good	240 (63.7)	253 (67.1)
Pretty bad	38 (10.1)	45 (11.9)
Very bad	5 (1.3)	5 (1.3)
Are you in pain? n (%)b			< 0.001
Never or almost never	205 (53.0)	149 (38.5)
Sometimes	111 (28.7)	135 (34.9)
Often	43 (11.1)	59 (15.2)
Constantly	28 (7.2)	44 (11.4)
Do you feel depressed? n (%)c			0.232
Never or almost never	169 (43.2)	180 (46.0)
Sometimes	166 (42.5)	166 (42.5)
Often	50 (12.8)	35 (9.0)
Constantly	6 (1.5)	10 (2.6)

^a: n = 377. ^b: n = 387. ^c: n = 391.