Quality of life impact of cardiovascular and affective conditions among older residents from urban and rural communities

Table 3 Secondary analysis of the subjective social capital and health service accessibility by remoteness category from NSW adult population health surveys (years: 2006–2009)

		Major City	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote/Very Remote	Statistically significant comparisons
		(MC)	(IR)	(OR)	(R/VR)
Social capital	N	49,267	16,712	8030	902	MC < IR < OR & R/VR
	Mean	2.44	2.62	2.73	2.70
	SD	0.52	0.53	0.52	0.53
Health service accessibility	N	62,495	20,938	10,134	1126	MC > IR > OR & R/VR
	%	88.3	77.6	68.4	68.4

Note: Comparisons based on one-way ANOVA with Scheffé post hoc tests (social capital) or chi-squared tests (health service accessibility); significant follow-up comparisons: all p < .001; Health service accessibility % indicates the proportion of persons reporting no difficulty accessing services when needed; results are weighted to adjust for differential non-response rates by gender, age, remoteness and by population estimates for each health service area.

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