Table 4

Association between treatment burden score and self-rated health score, health-related quality of life score (PCS and MCS based on SF-12), number of self-reported conditions, and perceived stress score

VariableNSpearman’s rank correlations (rS)P value
Self-rated health score*13 032−0.45<0.0001
PCS score†13 229−0.46<0.0001
MCS score†13 229−0.51<0.0001
No of self-reported long-term conditions‡13 1800.26<0.0001
PSS score13 1120.44<0.0001

  • Bold values indicate statistical significance at the 5% level.

  • Unweighted analyses.

  • *Single question: 'In general, would you say your health is: excellent (5), very good (4), good (3), fair (2), poor (1)'?

  • †Based on the SF-12 V.2-questionnaire.

  • ‡Number of self-reported long-term conditions from a list of 17 conditions in the survey, cf. table 1.

  • MCS, Mental Component Summary; PCS, Physical Component Summary; PSS, Perceived Stress Scale.