Skip to main content

Table 2 Health related quality of life (RAND-36) in 727 Finnish young men according to their physical fitness index (PFI)

From: Association of physical fitness with health-related quality of life in Finnish young men

 

PFI-groups

P-value

between the groups*

 

Low

Mean (95% Cl)

Satisfactory

Mean (95% Cl)

High

Mean (95% Cl)

 

General health perception

70.0 (67.4 to 72.5)

74.5 (72.4 to 76.7)

74.2 (72.2 to 76.3)

< 0.001

Physical functioning

95.2 (94.0 to 96.3)

95.5 (94.6 to 96.4)

97.6 (96.3 to 98.9)

< 0.001

Role limitation physical

93.9 (91.1 to 96.8)

92.4 (89.1 to 95.8)

91.9 (88.9 to 94.7)

0.98

Role limitation emotional

87.9 (83.6 to 92.2)

89.5 (85.4 to 93.6)

93.9 (90.8 to 97.0)

0.78

Vitality

68.5 (65.6 to 71.5)

74.5 (72.2 to 76.7)

71.3 (69.3 to 73.3)

0.034

Mental health

78.8 (76.5 to 81.1)

81.179.0 to 83.1)

78.6 (76.8 to 80.4)

0.029

Social functioning

90.9 (88.4 to 93.5)

88.8 (86.4 to 91.1)

92.8 (90.9 to 94.7)

0.32

Bodily pain

80.6 (77.7 to 83.4)

81.6 (79.3 to 83.9)

79.3 (76.8 to 81.8)

0.35

  1. * Kruskall-Wallis test