The health utility score reflects the level of physical, mental, and social functioning associated with a particular health state and the preference weight the general population gives to that health state (1).
Items are summarized into two weighted scales representing perceived impairment in role functioning associated with physical and mental health problems, with lower scores indicating greater impairment [ 34].
In multivariate analyses, structured GP care and higher physical and mental functioning were associated with a significantly higher ADDQoL score, whereas type 1 diabetes was associated with a lower diabetes-related quality-of-life score (Table 1).
The final model, controlling for pre-deployment mental health function, showed that this lower mental health function was associated with younger age, lower social desirability, lower social support at pre-deployment, greater physical symptom severity, and having more PTSD symptoms.
Older age at time of surgery and better pre-operative physical and mental health were associated with better mental function at 12 months post arthroplasty.
Concerning the association between disease characteristics and health care needs, worse mental functioning was significantly associated with the presence of at least one unmet need in the psychological domain.
Some studies report elevated levels of these metabolites in prefrontal and hippocampal voxels and global mental functioning has been associated with increased prefrontal absolute glutamate concentrations [29].
3 Vila-Rodriguez et al 4 found that individuals living in SRO hotels in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver faced high mortality rates and suffered from compounding physical and mental multimorbidities associated with poor psychosocial functioning.
Increasing age, female sex, emotional role function and mental health were associated with increased fatigue at a mean of 64 weeks after stroke onset, but explained less than 30% of the variance.
Having better pre-operative function, and physical and mental health were associated with better physical function at 12 months post arthroplasty.
