Health change over the year following ill health retirement by employment status
| Reported health change | Employed at one year | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| No (n = 982) | Yes (n = 150) | All* (n = 1132) | |
| *This SF-36 question was answered by 99% of participants. | |||
| Much better now | 80 (8) | 32 (21) | 112 (10) |
| Somewhat better now | 234 (24) | 53 (36) | 287 (26) |
| About the same | 351 (36) | 47 (31) | 398 (35) |
| Somewhat worse now | 258 (26) | 18 (12) | 276 (24) |
| Much worse now | 59 (6) | 0 (0) | 59 (5) |