Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 5 Association between SF-12 scores and participants’ characteristics

From: Relationship between health-related quality of life, perceived family support and unmet health needs in adult patients with multimorbidity attending primary care in Portugal: a multicentre cross-sectional study

Characteristic	SF-12 scores (P-values*)
Characteristic	PF	RP	BP	GH	VT	SF	RE	MH	PCS	MCS
Sex	<0.001	0.023	<0.001	0.016	0.004	<0.001	n.s	<0.001	0.001	<0.001
Age group	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	n.s	n.s	n.s	n.s	<0.001	n.s.
Living arrangements	0.010	0.009	n.s	n.s	n.s	0.025	n.s	0.012	0.007	0.043
Education	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.019	n.s	0.017	<0.001	n.s.
Residence area	n.s.	n.s	n.s	0.027	n.s	0.045	n.s	n.s	n.s.	n.s.
Marital status	<0.001	0.001	0.001	<0.001	0.017	<0.001	<0.001	0.003	<0.001	0.001
Monthly income	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Professional status	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.021	n.s	0.012	0.011	<0.001	n.s.
Family APGAR	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Unmet health needs	<0.001	0.003	<0.001	<0.001	0.002	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001
Asthma	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	n.s	n.s	n.s	n.s	<0.001	n.s.
Osteoarthritis	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.002	n.s	n.s	0.023	<0.001	n.s.
Diabetes	0.002	0.047	n.s	<0.001	n.s	n.s	n.s	n.s	0.001	n.s.
Hypertension	<0.001	0.001	0.029	<0.001	n.s	n.s	n.s	n.s	<0.001	n.s.

PF physical functioning, RP role physical, BP bodily pain, GH general health, VT vitality, SF social functioning, RE role emotional, MH mental health, PCS physical component summary, MCS mental component summary
*P-values are for score comparison between categories of each characteristic (bivariate analysis)

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