Hepatitis C, table 3, Development of a diseases pecific questionnaire to measure health related quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease

Development of a disease specific questionnaire to measure health related quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease

table 3 SF-36 scores according to severity of liver disease

	Stage of liver disease
Domain	No cirrhosis (n=45)	Child’s A (n=43)	Child’s B (n=31)	Child’s C (n=14)	p Value
Physical functioning (PF)	79.57 (25.7)	57.95 (26.0)	36.21 (26.5)	31.89 (24.2)	<0.001
Rolephysical (RP)	65.79 (44.4)	43.42 (41.0)	23.28 (36.6)	5.36 (14.47)	<0.001
Bodily pain (BP)	72.51 (26.5)	57.59 (26.2)	46.55 (27.1)	54.38 (31.9)	0.002
General health (GH)	63.65 (21.7)	45.42 (19.6)	35.46 (21.1)	30.33 (23.3)	<0.001
Vitality (VT)	49.91 (11.2)	45.51 (8.57)	48.15 (8.7)	50.77 (7.32)	0.150
Social functioning (SF)	76.6 (24.5)	67.95 (26.7)	52.59 (30.3)	44.23 (30.0)	<0.001
Roleemotion (RE)	73.68 (41.9)	65.77 (41.9)	40.48 (44.8)	30.77 (39.6)	0.001
Mental health (MH)	48.1 (14.7)	60.21 (16.3)	62.81 (14.3)	57.54 (16.9)	<0.001
Mental component summary score	40.99 (7.1)	45.8 (5.8)	44.15 (6.1)	49.2 (5.6)	0.013
Physical component summary score	49.82 (13.6)	36.96 (11.4)	39.1 (11.6)	27.8 (9.1)	<0.001