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A. O. Ogunyemi and Associates Health-Related Quality of Life

Table 2: HRQOL scores of the respondents

Domain (Items) Institutional Non-Institutional t p value
n = 120 n = 240
mean ± SD mean ± SD
General Health (5) 48.6± 18.0 63.9±17.1 –7.86 <0.001
Physical function (9) 43.4±34.9 60.7±26.2 –5.31 <0.001
Role function-Physical (4) 44.1± 24.3 60.2±25.9 –5.67 <0.001
Role function-Emotional (3) 51.4± 22.5 65.6± 27.3 –4.94 <0.001
Vitality (4) 55.4± 18.0 66.9±15.4 –6.34 <0.001
Mental Health (5) 59.0± 13.2 71.2±16.1 –7.16 <0.001
Body pain (2) 66.3± 28.0 62.9±25.1 1.15 0.250
Total Mean Score ± SD 52.6±15.7 64.5±15.6 –6.82 <0.001
1 Domain not applicable in the institution

Table 3: Association between Respondents HRQOL and their Socio-demographic Variables
Variable Institutional n=120 Freq (%) Non-Institutional n=240 Freq (%)
HRQOL HRQOL
Poor Good Poor Good
Age (in years)
60 – 69 6(46.2) 7(53.8) 15(11.6) 114(88.4)
70 – 79 26(49.1) 27(50.9) 16(21.3) 59(78.7)
80 – 89 24(63.2) 14(36.8) 14(42.4) 19(57.6)
90 – 99 13(81.3) 3(18.8) 2(66.7) 1(33.3)
 =6.42 p =0.089 p<0.001*
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Sex
Male 35(70.0) 15(30.0) 15(16.1) 78(83.9)
Female 34(48.6) 36(51.4) 32(21.8) 115(78.2)
 =5.48 p=0.021  =1.15 p=0.278
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Marital status
Never Married 5(38.5) 8(61.5) 0(0.0) 2(100.0)
Married 9(60.0) 6(40.0) 17(12.5) 119(87.5)
Sep/Divorced 7(46.7) 8(53.3) 3(14.3) 18(85.7)
Widowed 48(62.3) 29(37.7) 27(33.3) 54(66.7)
p=0.091* p<0.001*
Level of education
No formal 23(71.9) 9(28.1) 19(26.4) 53(73.6)
Primary 14(51.9) 13(48.1) 14(19.4) 58(80.6)
Secondary 8(42.1) 11(57.9) 6(13.0) 40(87.0)
Post-Secondary 24(57.1) 18(42.9) 8(16.0) 42(84.0)
 =5.9 p=0.119 χ =6.6 p=0.085
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Work status
Engaged in work – – 14(10.2) 123(89.8)
Not engaged in work 69(57.5) 51(42.5) 33(32.0) 70(68.0)
 =0.82 χ =12.6 p=<0.001
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Pension
Yes 15(51.7) 14(48.3) 7(21.9) 25(78.1)
No 45(57.7) 33(42.3) 22(31.9) 47(68.1)
 =6.0 p=0.051 χ =8.6 p=0.013
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Income (N)
No income 25(89.3) 3(10.7) 0(0.0) 1(100.0)
1–20000 35(48.6) 37(51.4) 37(22.3) 129(77.7)
20001–50000 0(0.0) 5(100.0) 5(10.4) 43(89.6)
50001–100000 0(0.0) 6(100.0) 1(9.1) 10(90.9)
>100000 9(100.0) 0(0.0) 0(0.0) 2(100.0)
p=<0.001* p=0.321*

*Fisher’s exact p value

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