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Table 2 Health-related Quality of Life and SF-6D QALY-weights for dyads of stroke survivors and dyads of controls

From: Stroke survivors’ long-term QALY-weights in relation to their spouses’ QALY-weights and informal support: a cross-sectional study

 

Spouses of stroke survivor

Stroke survivor

Mean difference

Spouses of controls

Controls

Mean difference

Physical functioning

84 (21)

67 (30)

17 (31)***

87 (18)

87 (16)

0 (21)

Role, physical

79 (36)

65 (41)

14 (49) ***

86 (32)

86 (31)

0 (42)

Bodily pain

72 (27)

71 (29)

1 (36)

76 (26)

79 (24)

3 (35)

General health

72 (23)

63 (23)

9 (28)***

76 (21)

78 (18)

2 (24)

Vitality

66 (24)

57 (25)

8 (30)***

73 (22)

76 (19)

3 (25)

Social functioning

87 (21)

81 (25)

6 (31)**

91 (19)

92 (17)

1 (23)

Role, emotional

81 (35)

80 (36)

0 (49)

90 (27)

93 (23)

3 (31)

Mental health

78 (20)

76 (20)

2 (25)

84 (16)

86 (15)

2 (19)

SF-6D QALY-weight

0.75 (0.12)

0.70 (0.12)

0.05 (0.15)***

0.77 (0.11)

0.78 (0.10)

0.01 (0.14)

  1. Mean with standard deviations in parenthesis
  2. Wilcoxon signed ranks test with following level of significance: ***1%, **5%, *10%