The overall aim of the study was to determine whether patients' demographic characteristics, functional status, neuroticism, social network, social support, spirituality, and time since symptom onset are related to the physical and mental components of a patient's HRQOL.
Both the physical and mental components of the SF-36 were within the population norm of 50 ± 10 (SD) points and were independent of the affected side.
The SF-36 covers both physical and mental components of health and may be used for identifying specific problems that need closer follow-up, such as anxiety or depression that might benefit from closer follow-up by trained professionals both pre- and postoperatively.
It is worth noting that this dual explananda strategy is consistent with Davidson's commitment to the causal closure of the physical domain (Crane 1995 seems to miss this point)—every physical event can have a physical explanation, even if the mental component of some physical events can be rationally explained only through appeal to mental components of the causing event.
"We unpack the physical, emotional and mental components of what it is to be human," said Waller.
Lifestyle factors also directly affect physical and mental components of health, frailty, and mortality.
In part, the reduction in HRQL is due to the mental components of HRQL.
Tables 3 and 4 show the factors determining physical and mental components of the HRQoL, respectively.
The social component of VQ11 correlated with the social functioning and mental components of the SF36.
SF-36 assesses HRQoL in eight dimensions related to the physical and mental components of health.
In addition, there are two composite scales that summarize the physical and mental components of the SF-36.
