Health-related quality of life and health preference of Chinese patients with diabetes mellitus managed in primary care and secondary care setting: decrements associated with individual complication and number of complications

Table 2 Comparison of health-related quality of life and SF-6D health preference between study subjects and age-sex matched general healthy population

Scales	All study subjects	Comparison
Scales	All study subjects	Sampled study subjects^a	General healthy population	P value
	(N = 1275)	(N = 220)	(N = 220)
Health related quality of life
PF	80.46 ± 29.67	80.34 ± 28.72	86.82 ± 24.65	0.012
RP	80.65 ± 27.97	80.00 ± 26.40	84.32 ± 23.19	0.069
BP	79.00 ± 27.76	77.61 ± 28.40	82.73 ± 24.65	0.044
GH	36.56 ± 24.44	36.68 ± 24.26	51.77 ± 28.94	<0.001
VT	58.86 ± 29.96	56.93 ± 31.34	65.80 ± 26.67	0.002
SF	86.80 ± 26.26	82.61 ± 30.25	85.45 ± 23.62	0.273
RE	86.31 ± 22.97	83.13 ± 25.11	83.07 ± 20.94	0.979
MH	78.10 ± 21.20	76.76 ± 22.64	74.20 ± 20.22	0.212
PCS	45.89 ± 10.94	46.05 ± 10.41	50.33 ± 9.81	<0.001
MCS	54.97 ± 10.47	53.44 ± 11.78	52.75 ± 10.01	0.508
Health preference
SF-6D score	0.868 ± 0.113	0.862 ± 0.113	0.863 ± 0.102	0.922

Figures are expressed as Mean ± SD
BP bodily pain, GH general health, MCS mental component summary score, MH mental health, PCS physical component summary score, PF physical functioning, RE role emotional, RP role physical, SF social functioning, VT vitality
^aProportional sampling from the total study subjects, all the items were not significantly different from total study subjects

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