Table 3.
Patients’ HRQoL stratified by financial burden and treatment status.
| Mean (Standard Deviation) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment Status | Objective Financial Burden | Subjective Financial Burden | Overall | ||||||
| Low | Moderate | High | p-Value | Low | Moderate | High | p-Value | Mean (sd) | |
| Overall | |||||||||
| EQ Index | 0.89 (0.12) | 0.85 (0.16) | 0.84 (0.19) | <0.001 | 0.92 (0.09) | 0.87 (0.13) | 0.79 (0.21) | <0.001 | 0.86 (0.16) |
| Physical functioning | 83.8 (15.4) | 78.2 (17.7) | 77.1 (18.4) | <0.001 | 86.9 (13.4) | 79.9 (14.8) | 71.9 (19.9) | <0.001 | 80.1 (17.3) |
| Emotional functioning | 68.7 (22.2) | 63.9 (24.9) | 64.3 (24.2) | <0.001 | 77 (17.6) | 65.9 (19.5) | 53 (26.4) | <0.001 | 66.1 (23.6) |
| Social functioning | 56.2 (30) | 47.7 (29.7) | 43.3 (28.8) | <0.001 | 70.7 (22) | 47.9 (22.2) | 25.1 (25.2) | <0.001 | 49.5 (30.1) |
| Minor | |||||||||
| EQ Index | 0.91 (0.1) | 0.87 (0.1) | 0.87 (0.2) | 0.27 | 0.93 (0.08) | 0.9 (0.08) | 0.8 (0.13) | <0.001 | 0.9 (0.11) |
| Physical functioning | 88.5 (11.8) | 82.2 (11.82) | 80.6 (13.8) | 0.01 | 90.6 (10.4) | 85.4 (11.8) | 79.4 (13.8) | <0.001 | 87 (12.2) |
| Emotional functioning | 70.2 (20.9) | 65 (23) | 59.8 (34.3) | 0.59 | 77.8 (15.5) | 65.3 (19.8) | 48 (29.3) | <0.001 | 68.5 (22.7) |
| Social functioning | 68.7 (27.2) | 62.2 (27.8) | 36.4 (35.6) | 0.01 | 81.6 (19.3) | 58.3 (18.9) | 28.6 (31.7) | <0.001 | 64.8 (29.5) |
| Moderate | |||||||||
| EQ Index | 0.89 (0.1) | 0.84 (0.1) | 0.87 (0.1) | 0.11 | 0.91 (0.08) | 0.84 (0.13) | 0.84 (0.11) | <0.001 | 0.88 (0.11) |
| Physical functioning | 85.8 (14.9) | 73 (15.7) | 79.4 (18.8) | 0.002 | 86.2 (15.6) | 81 (16.2) | 76 (17.3) | 0.002 | 82 (16.7) |
| Emotional functioning | 69.1 (23.7) | 55 (26.8) | 72.9 (24.6) | 0.02 | 76.1 (18.6) | 69.9 (22.5) | 52.9 (29) | <0.001 | 67.8 (25) |
| Social functioning | 58.8 (30.3) | 45 (30.2) | 53.6 (30.7) | 0.15 | 73.5 (21) | 52.6 (26.5) | 27.9 (24.9) | <0.001 | 55.2 (30.5) |
| Severe | |||||||||
| EQ Index | 0.86 (0.15) | 0.81 (0.19) | 0.78 (0.22) | <0.001 | 0.89 (0.12) | 0.85 (0.13) | 0.73 (0.25) | <0.001 | 0.82 (0.19) |
| Physical functioning | 78 (17.4) | 73.2 (19.3) | 71.7 (20.3) | <0.001 | 82.4 (16) | 76.4 (15.5) | 66.8 (21.3) | <0.001 | 74.5 (19.2) |
| Emotional functioning | 65.2 (21.6) | 60.3 (25.9) | 58 (24) | 0.001 | 73.9 (16.3) | 64.3 (19.4) | 49 (25.4) | <0.001 | 61.3 (23.5) |
| Social functioning | 45.1 (27.3) | 41.9 (30.2) | 36.7 (26.8) | 0.004 | 63.4 (20.2) | 45.2 (20.9) | 20.4 (22.9) | <0.001 | 41 (27.9) |
| Treatment completed | |||||||||
| EQ Index | 0.92 (0.1) | 0.9 (0.12) | 0.89 (0.14) | 0.006 | 0.94 (0.07) | 0.89 (0.14) | 0.85 (0.16) | <0.001 | 0.9 (0.13) |
| Physical functioning | 87 (13.1) | 83.5 (15.3) | 80.9 (15.7) | <0.001 | 89 (11.1) | 82.6 (13.6) | 76.3 (17.7) | <0.001 | 83.6 (15) |
| Emotional functioning | 71.5 (22.5) | 68.7 (23) | 68.6 (23) | 0.2 | 78.7 (18.3) | 67.3 (19.1) | 58.1 (26) | <0.001 | 69.7 (22.8) |
| Social functioning | 61.4 (30.3) | 52.1 (28.4) | 47.7 (29) | <0.001 | 72.3 (22.4) | 48.1 (23) | 29.7 (26.4) | <0.001 | 53.5 (30) |
Note: Minor: Never be treated (no need for treatment); Moderate: Currently not under treatment (improved due to last treatment); Severe: Under treatment; Treatment completed: Treatment just completed; sd, Standard deviation.