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Table 6 Cohort-stratified path regression results; outcome: general health score*

From: Heterogeneity in health status and the influence of patient characteristics across patients seeking musculoskeletal orthopaedic care – a cross-sectional study

  

Foot/Ankle

Elbow/Shoulder

Neck/Back

Hip/Knee

  

(n = 349)

(n = 378)

(n = 454)

(n = 767)

   

Outcome: General Health Score

 

Predictors

  

Beta Coefficients**

 
 

(95% Confidence Limits)

 

Age

 

0.06

0.02

0.09

0.02

  

(−0.09, 0.21)

(−0.12, 0.15)

(−0.04, 0.22)

(−0.08, 0.12)

Sex (ref: Male)

Female

1.81

−3.47

3.28

−0.81

  

(−2.65, 6.26)

(−7.39, 0.45)

(−0.77, 7.34)

(−3.76, 2.14)

Income (ref: high)

Low

−4.97

−4.01

−5.11

−5.18

  

(−11.42, 1.49)

(−9.72, 1.70)

(−11.80, 1.57)

(−9.72, -0.64)

 

Missing

−9.28

−3.19

−2.72

−0.06

  

(−16.18, -2.39)

(−9.38, 3.00)

(−6.98, 1.53)

(−4.22, 4.09)

Education (ref: >high school)

≤ high school

−4.66

−3.17

−2.51

−2.10

  

(−9.92, 0.61)

(−7.18, 0.85)

(−6.59, 1.57)

(−5.34, 1.14)

Race (ref: White)

Asian

−0.07

−0.73

−4.07

−8.45

  

(−10.79, 10.65)

(−9.34, 7.89)

(−12.89, 4.76)

(−14.93, -1.98)

 

Black

−13.75

−6.64

−8.87

−1.07

  

(−27.36, -0.14)

(−16.26, 2.97)

(−18.88, 1.15)

(−7.55, 5.40)

 

Other

−3.47

−0.78

−7.33

2.89

  

(−11.28, 4.34)

(−6.95, 5.40)

(−15.14, 0.48)

(−2.90, 8.67)

 

South Asian

−0.96

−10.35

−11.42

0.21

  

(−11.71, 9.79)

(−20.16, -0.54)

(−20.98, -1.85)

(−6.37, 6.78)

Comorbidity Count

 

−3.27

−5.28

−4.35

−3.29

  

(−4.51, -2.04)

(−6.47, -4.09)

(−5.41, -3.28)

(−4.08, -2.51)

Body Mass Index (ref: Normal)

Overweight

−1.92

−1.30

−0.68

0.62

  

(−6.86, 3.02)

(−5.64, 3.04)

(−5.17, 3.80)

(−2.85, 4.10)

 

Obese

−12.95

−3.47

−5.82

−2.96

  

(−18.71, -7.20)

(−8.56, 1.61)

(−11.12, -0.52)

(−6.67, 0.75)

  1. *all health domain scores were simultaneously assessed as dependent variables, with allowance for correlations between health domain scores;
  2. **bolded estimates represent statistical significance (i.e. p < 0.05).