Sex differences in the relative contribution of social and clinical factors to the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 measure of health-related quality of life in older home care clients

Table 2 HUI2 Mean (95%CI) Overall and Single Attribute Scores among the Total Sample of Older Home Care Clients and by Client Sex

	Overall^a	Cognition	Emotion	Sensation	Pain^b	Mobility^c	Self-care
Total (n = 514)	0.49 (0.48-0.51)	0.89 (0.88-0.90)	0.85 (0.83-0.87)	0.79 (0.77-0.81)	0.77 (0.75-0.79)	0.57 (0.55-0.59)	0.43 (0.39-0.47)
Females (n = 372)	0.48 (0.46-0.50)	0.89 (0.88-0.91)	0.85 (0.82-0.87)	0.79 (0.78-0.81)	0.75 (0.72-0.78)	0.56 (0.54-0.58)	0.43 (0.38-0.48)
Males (n = 142)	0.52 (0.49-0.55)	0.89 (0.87-0.91)	0.86 (0.82-0.90)	0.78 (0.75-0.82)	0.82 (0.77-0.86)	0.60 (0.56-0.64)	0.44 (0.36-0.53)

^aSignificantly lower value for female vs. male clients, ^ap = 0.0367; ^bp = 0.0051.
^cClinically important difference for female vs. male clients, p = 0.0976

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