Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life for Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

Table 5

Comparisons of SF-36 dimensions between study’s sample and an age-sex matched sample from the general population (retrieved from Pappa et al. [15]).

	General population mean ± SD	Caregivers mean ± SD	p value
SF-36 dimensions score(s) (0–100)
Physical functioning	74.8 ± 32	80 ± 22.5	0.168
Role limitations: physical	71.6 ± 46	65.5 ± 41.5	0.062
Bodily pain	70.5 ± 31	68.7 ± 30	0.455
General health	59 ± 24	64.7 ± 22	0.040
Vitality	61 ± 22.8	57.8 ± 23	0.123
Social functioning	78 ± 30.4	57.4 ± 33.7	<0.001
Role limitations: emotional	83 ± 72	44.7 ± 44	<0.001
Mental health	63.6 ± 20.6	52.7 ± 23.6	<0.001