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Table 4 Means (Analysis of Variance) and Adjusted means (Analysis of Covariance with control variables age and gender) of the 'use of health services variables' for the 5 functioning indexes

From: Socio-demographic factors and self-reported funtional status: the significance of social support

Variables

SORM

SCR

SL

MSCR

MSORM

 

Mean

Adj. mean

Mean

Adj. mean

Mean

Adj. mean

Mean

Adj. mean

Mean

Adj. mean

Physician visits

          

   Yes

5.13***

4.94***

2.45***

2.41*

0.75***

0.68***

0.17***

0.15*

0.71***

0.65***

   No

3.88

4.07

2.18

2.21

0.25

0.32

0.07

0.09

0.34

0.40

Use of medicines

          

   Yes

4.87***

4.51***

2.37***

2.28*

0.61***

0.45***

0.16***

0.11*

0.68***

0.57***

   No

3.33

3.70

2.06

2.15

0.07

0.23

0.01

0.06

0.14

0.26

Hospitalization

          

   Yes

5.40***

5.16***

2.60***

2.55**

0.81***

0.71***

0.22***

0.19**

0.82***

0.74***

   No

3.95

4.19

2.18

2.23

0.28

0.38

0.07

0.10

0.36

0.44

Use of health serv. Index

          

   1+

4.34***

4.07***

2.27**

2.21NS

0.41 ***

0.30NS

0.11 ***

0.08NS

0.50***

0.41***

   0

3.33

3.60

2.08

2.21

0.09

0.20

0.01

0.05

0.10

0.19

  1. *** p ≤ 0.001, ** p ≤ 0.01, *p ≤ 0.05, NS = non statistically significant