These are: NCSI Subjective Pulmonary Symptoms, Subjective Impairment, Dyspnoea Emotions and Satisfaction Relations; SF-36 Social functioning, Bodily Pain, Role Physical and Role Emotional.
Subdomains that showed no conceptual similarity were NCSI Subjective Pulmonary Symptoms, Subjective Impairment, Dyspnoea Emotions and Satisfaction Relations, and SF-36 Social functioning, Bodily Pain, Role Physical and Role Emotional.
Results bodily pain, role function and physical summary were significantly improved at 6 months in the PIN stripping group.
The SF-36 contains 36 items covering eight health concepts: mental health, vitality, psychical functioning, social function, bodily pain, role limitations due to physical problems, emotional problems, and general health.
The SF-36 contains two summary scores (Mental Component Summary [MCS] and Physical Component Summary [PCS] scores), and the following eight subscales: physical function, bodily pain, role-physical, general health, vitality, social function, role-emotional, and mental health.
Compared with controls, individuals with GERD in this study experienced considerable impairment in HRQoL, particularly in the bodily pain, role limitation-physical and role limitation-emotional dimensions.
The PEP made significant improvement in bodily pain, role emotional and overall aspects of HRQOL.
In general, the PEP participants reported significant improvement in bodily pain, role emotional subscale and SF-6D scores at the 12-month from baseline.
Five themes emerged from this analysis: Home delivery as the norm; Collective decisions; Perceptions and expressions of bodily symptoms; Role of God; Flexibility and dynamics in health seeking.
Lower HRQOL scores in bodily pain, role physical and general health domains were associated with more frequent health service utilization in Chinese female rural-to-urban migrant workers.
