Quality of Life in rural and urban populations in Lebanon using SF-36 Health Survey

Table 7 Influence of habitat on the SF-36 scale scores: multivariate analysis results.

N = 524	PF	RF	BP	GH	VT	SF	RE	MH
Habitat					***	0.10
Age	*			0.08
Gender	***	***	***	***	**			0.06
Self-administered questionnaire			0.08	**	***	***		**
Serious event				***		0.08		*
Global Quality of life			***	*	*	**	**	*
Asthma		0.07		0.07	0.08	0.08	***	0.08
Chronic renal failure	*		0.068	***	0.07	**
Epilepsy	***		0.08			***
Depression/anxiety	*	0.09	***		*	***		*
Insomnia	0.09				0.10	0.06	0.09
Rheumatic pain	*	***	*	**	***
Lumbar pain	***	**	*	***	0.07	***	***
Discopathy	*		*	*
Visual disorder			***		0.06			***

Notes: Education was excluded in this analysis in view of the high correlation with mode of administration of the questionnaire (r = 0.46) and LCI-M. Osteoporosis was also excluded in this analysis in view of the high correlation with chronic renal failure (r = 0.56). Professional satisfaction was also excluded in view of the high correlation with LCI.-M *: P < 0.001; **: p < 0.01; ***: p < 0.05; blanks in table indicate a non-significant GLM for the eight scale in that test.

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