TABLE 4.

Quality of Life (QOL) and Interaction Effects of Sex and Past-year Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) on QOL Among US Adults

	With OUD			Without OUD			Interaction
	Male	Female	Cohen d	Male	Female	Cohen d	Coefficient	P
Health-related Quality of Life
Physical component summary (PCS)	40.4 ± 13.5	38.3 ± 12.0	0.16	50.0 ± 10.2	49.6 ± 10.6	0.04	1.74	0.322
Mental component summary (MCS)	41.9 ± 11.0	39.9 ± 12.5	0.17	51.6 ± 9.4	49.7 ± 10.5	0.19	−1.38	0.328
Quality-adjusted Life Year
EuroQOL-5D (EQ-5D)	0.75 ± 0.15	0.71 ± 0.14	0.29	0.90 ± 0.11	0.88 ± 0.12	0.17	0.00	0.897

For coding, being female = 1 versus being male = 0 and having an OUD = 1 and not having an OUD = 0.