Table 5:
SF36 Analysis
| N | SF36 Physical Health Component | SF36 Mental Health Component | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre | early | Med | Long | Δ | pre | early | med | Long | Δ | ||
| Overall | 51 | 65.3 | 56.9 | 68.0 | 77.5+ | 12.2 | 77.0 | 73.2 | 82.5 | 84.6+ | 7.6 |
| Unilateral | 24 | 66.3 | 57.6 | 68.1 | 76.5^ | 10.1 | 79.4 | 73.9 | 81.3 | 85.3^ | 5.9 |
| Bilateral | 27 | 64.4 | 56.1 | 68.0 | 78.8+ | 14.3 | 75.2 | 72.4 | 83.6 | 84.1^ | 9.0 |
| P | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.43 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | |||||
| TRAM | 15 | 65.1 | 56.0 | 65.5 | 76.8^ | 12.5 | 76.0 | 69.6 | 78.8 | 83.9^ | 7.9 |
| DIEP | 9 | 68.5 | 60.0 | 72.1 | 75.9^ | 7.4 | 85.2 | 80.4 | 85.2 | 87.6* | 2.5 |
| P | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | |||||
| TRAM/TRAM | 20 | 62.4 | 54.6 | 68.3 | 77.5+ | 18.1 | 73.7 | 75.7 | 84.1 | 85.3^ | 13.7 |
| DIEP/DIEP | 4 | 65.0 | 53.8 | 68.3 | 91.7^ | 26.7 | 74.2 | 64.2 | 77.5 | 80.3* | 6.12 |
| TRAM/DIEP | 3 | 72.3 | 70.0 | 65.1 | 74.0* | 1.7 | 79.6 | 61.8 | 85.4 | 80.3* | 0.7 |
| P | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |||||
| Obese | 15 | 66.6 | 55.8 | 67.2 | 63.1* | −3.5 | 78.6 | 72.9 | 82.9 | 75.2* | −3.4 |
| Non-obese | 36 | 64.9 | 57.3 | 68.2 | 83.6+ | 18.7 | 76.6 | 73.3 | 82.4 | 88.5+ | 11.9 |
| P | 0.4 | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.4 | 0.005 | 0.02 | |||||
*
pre vs. long – p>0.05,
^
pre vs. long – p<0.05,
+
pre vs. long – p<0.001