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Table 2 Quality of life scores for patients with podoconiosis and healthy controls, Northern Ethiopia, 2012

From: The impact of podoconiosis on quality of life in Northern Ethiopia

Variables

Podoconiosis cases

Healthy controls

Mean difference (95% CI)§

p value 1

Overall WHOQoL-BREF Score Mean (SD)

52.05 (10.71)

64.39 (9.65)

−12.35 (−13.87 to −10.83)

<0.001

Physical Domain/100 Mean (SD)

47.89 (16.68)

68.12 (14.87)

−20.23 (−22.58 to −17.87)

<0.001

Psychological Domain/100 Mean (SD)

51.12 (18.18)

66.98 (17.38)

−15.85 (−18.51 to −13.21)

<0.001

Social Domain/100 Mean (SD)

52.12 (20.73)

67.16 (17.80)

−15.05 (−17.92 to −12.17)

<0.001

Environmental Domain/100 Mean (SD)

43.06 (17.31)

56.44 (15.57)

−13.37 (−15.83 to −10.92)

<0.001

  1. § Calculated using a two-sample t-test showing the mean difference.