Research Article
Quality of Life and Functional Health Status of Long-Term Meditators
Table 3
Comparison of SF-36 subscale scores between mental silence practitioners and Australian national norms.
| Subscale | Test value (national norm) | | Df | Significance | Mean difference |
| PF | 83.82 | 1.75 | 345 | 0.082 | 2.39 | RP | 80.64 | ā0.95 | 345 | 0.342 | ā2.10 | BP | 77.05 | 3.19 | 345 | 0.002 | 3.79 | GH | 71.81 | 12.72 | 332 | 0.001 | 10.72 | V | 64.27 | 6.24 | 337 | 0.001 | 5.98 | SF | 85.25 | 3.59 | 337 | 0.001 | 3.52 | RE | 83.44 | 4.43 | 334 | 0.001 | 5.74 | MH | 75.75 | 14.26 | 336 | 0.001 | 9.56 |
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