This doesn't always mean physical attacks.
Significantly lower mean physical functioning, role physical, and social functioning scores were reported at the 1-month visit by participants treated for TB disease.
Overall, after adjustment for age, sex, and disease duration, the physical HRQoL, which includes mean physical functioning, role physical, and bodily pain, was similar for patients with RA, PsA, and AS at baseline and was well below the average score of 50 for the general United States population.
Higher mean scores were observed for Physical Role Limitations (mean = 79.9), Emotional Role Limitations (mean = 78.7), Bodily Pain (mean = 73.2), Social Functioning (mean = 72.7), General Mental Health (mean = 69.8), Vitality (mean = 61.8), General Health Perceptions (mean = 59.6), and Physical Functioning (mean = 53.7) among women in agricultural compared with women in the mining community.
The wrist fracture patients had significantly lower mean (standard error) scores than the controls for physical role limitation (mean = 68(3) vs mean = 80(3), p = 0.006), social function (mean = 84(2) vs mean = 91(2), p = 0.002) and emotional role limitation (mean = 79(3) vs mean = 86(3), p = 0.043).
The other, unspoken, reason might be that it will be three weeks since Roberts damaged his hamstring, and the demands of his overtly physical role mean he might not last the distance.
This means that on the physical role limitations scale 0-1000, where a higher score indicates fewer role limitations) for every 10 points lower on the scale, an additional 0.1 hours are lost due to presenteeism.
Among the 8 scales, women reported significantly higher scores on Physical Role Limitations (mean = 79.9 and 57.8, p < 0.05) and Emotional Role Limitations (mean = 78.7 and 73.1) in agricultural and mining communities (Table 4).
Mean scores of the functioning scales (physical, role, emotional, cognitive and social) also linearly decreased with increasing pain severity.
