Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 2 Adjusted mean VAS - generalized linear model - ANCOVA

From: The influence of socioeconomic position on patient-reported outcome measures following hip fractures – a register-based observational study on 35,206 patients from the Norwegian hip fracture register 2014–2018

	EQ-VAS
	4 months				12 months				36 months
	Unadj.	Mean	95% CI	p	Unadj.	Mean	95% CI	p	Unadj.	Mean		95% CI	p
Level of education
Low	59.1	57.9	56.8 to 59.0	< 0.001	61.5	60.0	58.7 to 61.4	< 0.001	63.0	56.1		52.5 to 61.3	< 0,001
Medium	62.1	58.7	57.7 to 59.8	0.006	64.5	61.1	59.8 to 62.5	0.001	66.1	57.8		53.5 to 62.2	< 0.001
High	66.1	60.2	59.0 to 61.5	ref	68.6	63.1	61.6 to 64.6	ref	71.6	60.5		56.1 to 65.0	ref
Personal income
Low	58.6	58.0	56.8 to 59.2	0.001	61.2	60.2	59.2 to 62.1	0.023	62.6	56.8		52.4 to 61.2	< 0.001
Medium	60.4	59.1	58.0 to 60.2	0.328	63.2	61.6	60.2 to 63.0	0.640	64.2	57.7		53.4 to 62.1	0.013
High	65.1	59.7	58.6 to 60.8	ref	67.2	61.9	61.0 to 62.8	ref	69.8	61.6		60.2 to 62.9	ref

	Pain-VAS
	4 months				12 months				36 months
	Unadj.	Mean	95% CI	p	Unadj.	Mean	95% CI	p	Unadj.	Mean		95% CI	p
Level of education
Low	27.6	26.6	25.5 to 27.6	< 0,001	24.8	25.1	23.9 to 26.4	< 0,001	23.2	23.4		19.3 to 27.5	< 0,0001
Medium	25.4	24.6	23.6 to 25.6	< 0,001	23.2	23.4	22.2 to 24.7	< 0,001	21.7	22.1		18.1 to 26.2	< 0,0001
High	22.6	22.0	20.8 to 23.2	ref	20.1	20.5	19.1 to 22.0	ref	16.8	17.8		13.7 to 22.0	ref
Personal income
Low	26.1	24.8	23.6 to 25.9	0.059	23.8	23.4	22.0 to 24.7	0.038	22.4	21.4		17.3 to 25.4	0.2539
Medium	26.8	24.6	23.6 to 25.7	0.062	23.9	23.6	22.3 to 24.9	0.002	22.6	21.5		17.5 to 25.6	0.0791
High	24.7	23.8	22.7 to 24.8	ref	22.4	22.2	20.9 to 23.4	ref	19.5	20.4		16.4 to 24.5	ref

	Satisfaction-VAS
	4 months				12 months				36 months
	Unadj.	Mean	95% CI	p	Unadj.	Mean	95% CI	p	Unadj.	Mean		95% CI	p
Level of education
Low	72.9	73.6	72.5 to 74.6	0.211	72.2	73.0	71.4 to 74.6	0.0016	72.9	71.8		66.5 to 77.1	< 0,0001
Medium	73.7	74.0	72.9 to 75.0	0.607	72.3	73.1	71.6 to 74.7	0.0015	73.4	72.1		66.8 to 77.4	< 0,0001
High	74.5	74.4	73.2 to 75.7	ref	74.6	75.2	73.5 to 76.9	ref	77.7	75.9		70.5 to 81.3	ref
Personal income
Low	73.4	73.4	72.2 to 74.5	0.0085	72.7	73.7	72.0 to 75.3	0.5228	73.4	73.2		67.8 to 78.5	0.5228
Medium	73.4	73.8	72.7 to 74.9	0.0489	72.3	73.4	71.7 to 75.0	0.1515	72.9	72.7		67.4 to 78.1	0.1508
High	73.8	74.8	73.7 to 75.8	ref	72.8	74.3	72.7 to 75.9	ref	75.2	73.9		68.6 to 79.2	ref

Legend: Unadjusted mean values of the separate VAS-scores. The adjusted values are the means from the GLM ANCOVA model adjusted for age, sex, ASA, cognitive impairment and type of surgery

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