Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 3 Sociodemographic characteristics associated with the physical and mental component summaries

From: Assessment of health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure: a cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia

Characteristics		Median (IQR)	p Value
Physical component summary
Age	> 56 years	50 (32.8)	0.004^a*
Age	≤ 56 years	56.3 (30)	0.004^a*
Sex	Male	56.3 (33.8)	0.024^a*
Sex	Female	49.4 (21.3)	0.024^a*
Education level	≥ University	57.8 (28.8)	< 0.001^b*
	Secondary school	61.3 (31.3)
	< Secondary school	48.8 (33.1)
Mental component summary
Age	> 56 years	62.5 (31.2)	0.456^a
Age	≤ 56 years	67.1 (32.8)	0.456^a
Sex	Male	68.3 (31.7)	< 0.001^a*
Sex	Female	50.8 (23.8)	< 0.001^a*
Education level	≥ University	68 (32.9)	0.798^b
	Secondary school	65 (35.5)
	< Secondary school	62.5 (31.8)

^aMann–Whitney U test, ^bKruskal–Wallis test, *p value ≤ 0.05

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