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The difference between the samples for role limitations due to emotional problems did not reach significance.
Effect sizes ranged from −0.32 for Role limitations due to Emotional problems to −2.14 for Physical Functioning.
Differences were also observed for role limitations due to emotional problems (4.9 for those with a BDI ≥ 10 vs 5.5 for those with a BDI < 10, P < 0.001).
The effect sizes of the change were 0.34 for the PCS, 0.36 for role limitations due to emotional health and 0.37 for emotional well-being: negative affect.
A positive statistical change for the intervention group was achieved for role limitations due to physical health (p = 0.004), bodily pain (p = 0.034), general health (p = 0.027), and physical summary score (p = 0.013).
Specifically, as compared to a relatively low score of 29.6 before revision THA, the mean SF-36 score for role limitations due to physical problems was 41.3 after revision THA, an improvement of 39.8%.
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Effect sizes were large for Role Limitation-Physical and General Health, moderate for PCS, and small for all others.
Floor effects were negligible on most domains, except for role limitation (21.17%) and vitality (17.03%) from the SF-6D.
Likewise, the observed score for role limitation due to physical functioning (RP) of 42.3 (SD, 39.9) was lower than the population nom of 0.64 (P < 0.001).
Chronbach's alpha in our study in the eight SF-36 domains were 0.85 for bodily pain, 0.57 for general health, 0.91 for physical function, 0.91 for role limitation physical, 0.82 for mental health, 0.87 for vitality, 0.85 for social function and 0.78 for role limitation emotional.
The reliability and validity of the scale has reported to be good (Cronbach's alpha coefficients for 8 dimensions varied between 0.80 and 0.94), but ceiling effects were detected for physical functioning, role limitation physical and social functioning dimensions and floor effect for role limitation physical, role limitation emotional dimensions [ 14].
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