Predictors of physical and mental health-related quality of life outcomes among myocardial infarction patients

Table 4 Significant baseline predictor variables of 6 month health-related quality of life (HRQoL) from multivariate model (N=294)

	Physical HRQoL		Mental HRQoL
Characteristic	Mean difference	p	Mean difference	p
	(95% CI)		(95% CI)
Age
Age ≤60
Age >60	-4.9 (-7.6, -2.2)	<0.001	2.8 (0.7, 4.9)	0.01
Employed
Unemployed/Retired
Employed	3.3 (0.2, 6.4)	0.03	-	-
Baseline Physical HRQoL	0.4 (0.2, 0.5)	<0.001	-	-
Baseline Mental HRQoL	0.2 (0.1, 0.3)	<0.001	0.3 (0.2, 0.4)	<0.001
Physical activity self-efficacy	1.4 (0.7, 2.1)	<0.001	-	-
Intention to be physically active
No intention to be physically active in next 6 mths
Intend to be physically active in next 6 mths	9.4 (4.8, 14.1)	<0.001	-	-
Television viewing	-0.2 (-0.3, -0.1)	0.001	-0.1 (-0.2, -0.0)	0.01
Depressed (range 0–21)
No (0–7)
Yes (8–21)	-	-	-7.4 (-10.6, -4.1)	<0.001
Social Support^a (range 10–34)	-	-	0.4 (0.2, 0.6)	0.001

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