Table 1 Characteristics of 1013 bilingual participants
From: The English and Chinese language versions of the Short Form 12-item Health Survey are equivalent
English (n = 496) | Chinese (n = 517) | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
N (%) or mean ± SD | N (%) or mean ± SD | ||
Age (years) | 21.9 ± 5.9 | 21.8 ± 5.4 | 0.869 |
Gender (1 missing) | 0.690 | ||
Male | 186 (37.5%) | 200 (38.8%) | |
Female | 310 (62.5%) | 316 (61.2%) | |
Marital status (1 missing) | 0.968 | ||
Single | 461 (92.9%) | 482 (93.4%) | |
Cohabit | 2 (0.4%) | 2 (0.4%) | |
Married | 31 (6.3%) | 31 (6.0%) | |
Widow | 1 (0.2%) | 1 (0.2%) | |
Divorced | 1 (0.2%) | 0 (0%) | |
Employment (1 missing) | |||
Student | 410 (82.8%) | 432 (83.6%) | 0.337 |
Full-time work | 72 (14.5%) | 80 (15.5%) | |
Part-time work | 6 (1.2%) | 1 (0.2%) | |
Job seeking | 5 (1.0%) | 3 (0.6%) | |
Retired | 2 (0.4%) | 1 (0.2%) | |
Medical history (5 missing) | |||
No | 438 (88.8%) | 436 (84.7%) | 0.314 |
Yesa | 55 (11.2%) | 79 (15.3%) | |
SF-12v2 | |||
PF (2 missing) | 87.6 ± 22.3 | 93.5 ± 15.8 | < 0.001 |
RP (1 missing) | 75.1 ± 22.3 | 78.0 ± 21.9 | 0.037 |
BP (1 missing) | 79.0 ± 24.5 | 76.2 ± 21.8 | 0.056 |
GH (1 missing) | 58.5 ± 23.6 | 57.6 ± 25.1 | 0.600 |
VT (1 missing) | 53.0 ± 21.4 | 51.5 ± 23.7 | 0.297 |
SF (1 missing) | 70.6 ± 23.0 | 81.0 ± 20.2 | < 0.001 |
RE (2 missing) | 68.4 ± 23.4 | 64.5 ± 23.8 | 0.008 |
MH (0 missing) | 61.8 ± 17.5 | 62.8 ± 18.3 | 0.378 |
PCS (9 missing) | 50.9 ± 6.9 | 51.8 ± 6.4 | 0.030 |
MCS (9 missing) | 42.8 ± 9.4 | 42.8 ± 9.7 | 0.982 |