TABLE 9.
Quality of life total means (and standard deviations) of people with misophonia, general population, tinnitus, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and long-term conditions.
| SF-36 subscale | Misophonia (current study, baseline) | General population (current study, baseline) | Obsessive compulsive disorder (Rodriguez-Salgado et al., 2006) | General population (Rodriguez-Salgado et al., 2006) | Tinnitus (Ross et al., 2007) | Long-term conditions (Bowling et al., 1999)* | General population (Bowling et al., 1999)* |
| Physical functioning | 84.77 (20.46) | 88.15 (15.96) | 80.1 (22.7) | 84.7 (24.0) | 81.58 (19.68) | 52.3 (28.9) | 92.7 (20.2) |
| Role limitations – physical health | 73.57 (37.90) | 85.24 (29.43) | 54.3 (41.4) | 83.2 (35.2) | 56.13 (4.09) | 44.1 (42.5) | 90.9 (24.7) |
| Role limitations – emotional problems | 49.90 (43.40) | 74.29 (37.07) | 35.4 (44.4) | 88.6 (30.1) | 58.34 (43.52) | 71.6 (41.7) | 92.1 (23.5) |
| Energy/Fatigue | 41.47 (21.56) | 56.47 (21.31) | 40.6 (19.6) | 66.9 (22.1) | 42.88 (18.92) | 44.1 (23.9) | 69.0 (17.9) |
| Emotional wellbeing | 55.56 (20.07) | 71.94 (17.47) | 45.7 (19.9) | 73.3 (20.1) | 54.01 (17.55) | 67.5 (22.1) | 79.8 (16.1) |
| Social functioning | 61.30 (28.26) | 83.28 (21.66) | 48.8 (32.6) | 90.1 (20.0) | 67.10 (22.92) | 65.3 (30.5) | 93.5 (14.9) |
| Pain | 70.42 (24.52) | 77.77 (20.17) | 75.6 (26.2) | 79.0 (27.9) | 61.85 (28.46) | 56.0 (30.2) | 87.4 (19.6) |
| General health | 59.93 (22.08) | 66.39 (20.12) | 51.0 (22.2) | 68.3 (22.3) | 52.87 (17.15) | 44.8 (23.5) | 79.0 (16.1) |
*Normative data for the SF-36.