Health related quality of life
|
SF-36 Acute |
General health | 74.6 (17.8)† | 72.3 (18.6) | −2.5 (17.5) | ⩽0.0001 |
Mental health | 60.3 (21.1) | 63.3 (22.2) | 3.0 (19.5) | ⩽0.0001 |
Vitality | 38.2 (21.2) | 46.3 (21.5) | 8.0 (20.8) | ⩽0.0001 |
Role emotional | 75.7 (35.9) | 74.3 (37.0) | −1.2 (41.4) | ⩾0.4 |
Social functioning | 39.0 (26.3) | 47.5 (27.7) | 8.5 (26.4) | ⩽0.0001 |
Body region specific functional status‡ |
Roland Morris (back) | 18.9 (15.8) | 27.1 (23.7) | 8.3 (18.7) | ⩽0.0001 |
Modified ASES§ (upper limb) | 41.4 (24.5) | 48.7 (25.0) | 7.5 (19.0) | ⩽0.0001 |
WOMAC¶ (lower limb) | 37.2 (19.7) | 52.1 (23.9) | 15.0 (19.8) | ⩽0.0001 |
Pain grade‡ | 25.7 (12.8) | 38.1 (23.9) | 12.3 (21.2) | ⩽0.0001 |
Recovery expectations |
Soon | 146 (16%) | 208 (23%) | | |
Slowly | 504 (56%) | 521 (57%) | | |
Never | 34 (4%) | 28 (3%) | | |
Get worse | 7 (1%) | 8 (1%) | | |
Will recur | 37 (4%) | 2 (0.2%) | | |
Other | 179 (20%) | 140 (15%) | | |
Extent of recovery compared to expectations |
Much better | 51 (6%) | 121 (13%) | | |
Somewhat better | 254 (28%) | 300 (33%) | | |
As expected | 87 (10%) | 85 (9%) | | |
Somewhat worse | 332 (37%) | 267 (29%) | | |
Much worse | 165 (18%) | 119 (13%) | | |
Other | 18 (2%) | 15 (2%) | | |