Research Article

Impact of Radiofrequency Ablation and Antiarrhythmic Medications on the Quality of Life of Patients with Supraventricular Tachycardias: Preliminary Validation of the Greek Version of the Umea22 (U22) Questionnaire

Table 4

Multivariate linear regression analyses of the change in SF-36 measures at follow-up vs. baseline.

MeasuresMean change±SDCategoryCoeff. (95% CI)P

PF15.11±23.10
GroupA vs B13.13 (11.24, 27.02)<0.0001
Sex Male vs Female-12.12 (-19.91, -4.34)0.003
RP25.00±41.66
GroupA vs B43.74 (30.21, 57.28)<0.0001
OccupationEmployed vs other-17.31 (-32.09, -2.53)0.022
GH4.46±19.52
GroupA vs B21.42 (15.21, 27.63)<0.0001
OccupationEmployed vs other-8.84 (-15.63, -2.06)0.011

PF = physical functioning, RP = role physical, GH = general health.
In multivariate linear regression analyses of all other measures (not shown), Group was the only statistically significant predictor (p<0.0001 in all analyses).