Table 4.
Background, Loneliness, and Self-Rated Health (SRH) by Medical Condition Category.
| Background, Loneliness, and Self-Rated Health |
Mental n = 36 |
Metabolic n = 83 |
Cardiovascular n = 53 |
Autoimmune n = 64 |
Orthopedic/Pain n = 54 |
Test-Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background Characteristics | ||||||
| Age (years), average (Std) | 42.3 (14.3) a | 63.1 (13.1) c | 65.1 (16.1) c | 55.2 (16.0) b | 57.8 (14.2) b | 16.35, p < 0.001 |
| Female, % (n) | 71.43 (25) c | 43.04 (34) b | 30.43 (14) a | 79.03 (49) c | 70.37 (38) c | 39.40, p < 0.001 |
| BMI, average (Std) | 25.58 (6.26) a | 30.30 (7.38) b | 27.58 (4.48) a | 25.87 (4.52) a | 25.99 (5.10) a | 5.61, p < 0.001 |
| Duration, average (Std) | 5.46 (1.15) ab | 5.49 (0.92) b | 5.09 (1.01) a | 5.22 (1.06) ab | 5.07 (1.42) a | 1.54, p = 0.179 |
| Current SRH and Loneliness, average (Std) | ||||||
| SRH physical (current) 1 | 3.08 (0.97) | 3.29 (0.82) | 3.28 (0.86) | 3.25 (0.67) | 3.17 (0.86) | 0.49, p = 0.787 |
| SRH mental (current) 1 | 2.92 (1.03) a | 3.63 (0.96) b | 3.75 (0.90) b | 3.66 (0.85) b | 3.26 (0.81) b | 5.64, p < 0.001 |
| Loneliness (current) 2 | 6.75 (2.11) c | 5.46 (1.81) ab | 5.24 (2.09) a | 5.66 (2.15) ab | 6.00 (1.90) b | 4.57, p < 0.001 |
| Changes in SRH, average (Std) | ||||||
| Change in physical SRH 3 | 3.36 (0.96) ab | 3.29 (0.93) a | 3.34 (0.81) a | 3.53 (0.78) ab | 3.70 (0.82) b | 1.91, p = 0.092 |
| Change in mental SRH 3 | 3.72 (1.03) b | 3.35 (0.91) a | 3.48 (0.70) ab | 3.48 (0.77) ab | 3.73 (0.64) b | 1.96, p = 0.084 |
| Change in general SRH 3 | 3.22 (1.02) ab | 3.13 (0.79) ab | 3.19 (0.66) ab | 3.08 (0.82) a | 3.40 (1.01) b | 0.96, p = 0.440 |
SRH = Self-Rated Health. abc Different superscript values indicate that the absolute values differ significantly. 1 Items rated on a scale from 1 (very bad) to 5 (very good). 2 Total score; items rated on a scale from 1 (hardly ever) to 3 (often). 3 Items rated on a scale from 1 (greatly improved) to 5 (greatly worsened).