Health related quality of life assessment in acute coronary syndrome patients: the effectiveness of early phase I cardiac rehabilitation

Table 2 Quality-of-life scores obtained by comparing with normative values after the 12 months follow-up assessment

Differences between means for the three arms and Malaysian population norms^a
Normative value^b		MCRP		CCRP		Control
Domains		Mean	95% CI	Mean	95% CI	Mean	95% CI
PF	85.98 ± 17.91	−2.98 ^c	−13.64 to 7.68	−3.87	−13.11 to 5.36	−16.0	−27.09 to −4.90
RP	82.03 ± 32.12	−20.36 ^c	−42.46 to 1.75	−22.81	−43.38 to −2.25	−30.3	−46.36 to-14.24
BP	69.96 ± 17.59	10.57 ^c,d	−2.09 to 23.23	3.72^d	−8.94 to 16.39	−4.16	−14.92 to 6.59
GH	66.74 ± 19.99	3.66 ^c,d	−9.88 to 17.20	1.10^d	−10.34 to12.54	−2.87	−12.96 to 7.21
VT	66.79 ± 17.68	6.21 ^c,d	−6.16 to 18.58	1.36^d	−941 to 12.15	−1.96	−12.67 to 8.75
SF	83.73 ± 19.23	−2.89	−13.95 to 8.16	−1.49 ^c	−12.91 to 9.92	−15.62	−27.65 to −3.59
RE	79.23 ± 35.92	−17.01 ^c	−42.03 to 8.01	−23.08	−43.16 to −3.01	−33.25	−49.29 to-17.21
MH	74.66 ± 17.19	9.34 ^{c, d}	1.13 to 17.54	7.23^d	0.60 to 13.86	−0.59	−9.17 to 7.99

The differences between means for patient groups tested at 12 months follow-up and the population norms
^aCalculated from the differences of two respective means (mean of group minus mean of normative value)
^bValue derived from a sample of 3072 healthy participants studied by Azman et al. Malaysian population norms as a reference point
^cMean difference is higher in value which indicates a better health score between the three groups
^dPositive value of mean differences was considered higher than the normative value

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