Assessing Depression among Older Persons with Arthritis: A Nationwide Health Status Survey

Table 2

Comparison of sample SF-36 domain scores with the norms for the general US population.

SF-36 Domains	Mean general US population score*	Mean US score; (Ages 65–74 years )*	Mean US score; (Ages 75 years and older)*	Mean arthritis sample score; (65 years and older)
General health (GH)	71.95	62.56	56.66	63.25
Physical functioning (PF)	84.15	69.38	53.20	59.14
Role physical (RP)	80.96	64.54	43.28	53.09
Bodily pain (BP)	75.15	68.49	60.88	56.12
Vitality (VT)	60.86	59.94	50.41	53.20
Mental health (MH)	74.74	76.87	73.99	79.82
Social functioning (SF)	83.28	80.61	73.89	81.38
Role emotional (RE)	81.26	81.44	63.18	79.75

*Norms obtained from: Ware et al. [14].