The association between sense of coherence and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in a sample of patients on hemodialysis

Sawma, Toni; Sanjab, Yara

doi:10.1186/s40359-022-00805-9

Table 3 Association between sociodemographic and medical variables and SOC, with QOL and its submodalities

From: The association between sense of coherence and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in a sample of patients on hemodialysis

	QOL			Physical functioning			Emotional functioning			Professional functioning			Cognitive functioning			Social functioning			Satisfaction with the quality of car
	Mean	SD	p value	Mean	SD	p value	Mean	SD	p value	Mean	SD	p value	Mean	SD	p value	Mean	SD	p value	Mean	SD	p value
Gender
Male	53.95	17.21	0.024	52.52	17.00	0.031	50.95	26.53	0.021	42.39	38.47	0.432	58.91	28.06	0.037	54.35	21.38	0.150	89.34	17.54	0.878
Female	48.39	13.36		47.17	13.83		41.69	23.00		37.69	34.27		50.15	23.84		50.17	14.85		88.89	19.13
Marital status
Single	47.39	14.40	0.034	46.98	15.35	0.067	40.92	20.98	0.084	33.33	30.32	0.050	48.22	30.31	0.199	45.40*	18.60	0.009	86.02	22.75	0.850
Married	53.57*	16.16		52.01	16.08		49.74	26.22		44.02	37.81		57.55	25.93		55.33*	18.65		89.53	17.46
Divorced/Widowed	42.70*	12.73		41.52	11.28		35.28	25.51		16.67	35.36		50.37	22.14		42.45	17.84		94.14	7.66
Educational level
Uneducated	42.22†^	12.16	0.007	42.85	11.35	0.012 ±	32.50*‡	26.34	0.007	19.23*‡	25.32	0.006	36.41*‡	22.38	0.001	37.96*‡	15.45	0.006	89.32	18.39	0.715
Primary and elementary education	49.95	16.45		48.63	16.85		44.37	24.17		36.32	36.79		52.56⁋	25.74		51.75	19.57		90.23	17.23
Secondary education	56.49†	12.50		54.33	12.60		55.69*	23.89		53.45*	32.54		62.30*	24.19		58.47*	13.78		88.31	19.01
Higher education	58.86^	15.95		57.30	15.43		57.25‡	27.38		55.00‡	39.40		70.33‡⁋	28.07		57.79‡	20.26		85.14	21.62
Employment status
Unemployed/Retired	48.33	15.00	< 0.001	47.10	14.98	< 0.001	42.92	25.08	0.001	31.58	32.08	< 0.001	50.82	26.23	0.001	49.97	18.91	0.004	89.04	17.70	0.894
Employed	60.46	15.08		58.80	15.44		58.26	23.26		63.95	38.31		67.13	24.36		59.64	17.62		89.47	19.51
Duration on hemodialysis
0–11 months	52.25	16.07	0.278	50.79	16.15	0.387	47.61	25.59	0.577	43.18	36.95	0.032	56.82	26.62	0.098	53.32	18.54	0.291	89.60	17.32	0.477
≥ 12 months	48.47	15.06		47.77	14.82		44.50	25.14		26.00	32.66		47.20	25.96		48.92	21.36		86.78	22.28
Psychotropic medication
No	53.38	16.69	0.011	52.03	16.79	0.010	49.46	25.90	0.057	43.91	36.96	0.050	57.97	27.12	0.029	53.89	19.56	0.165	88.50	19.17	0.458
Yes	46.91	12.62		45.59	12.33		40.71	23.36		30.95	34.84		47.94	24.21		49.13	17.15		90.94	15.09
Kidney transplantation
No	51.21	16.01	0.161	49.87	16.04	0.169	46.64	25.57	0.340	40.20	37.19	0.738	55.23	26.78	0.907	51.93	18.84	0.067	88.81	18.52	0.342
Yes	58.89	13.26		57.42	12.98		55.00	23.68		44.44	30.05		56.30	26.27		63.87	19.36		94.75	9.05
Primary cause of kidney failure
Diabetes	50.56	14.24	0.030	48.52	14.65	0.045	46.08	23.76	0.100	46.67	41.38	0.085	51.78	23.79	0.002	54.17	14.91	0.085	91.02	15.40	0.470
Hypertension	57.69*	16.66		56.63*	16.30		52.98	28.36		52.38	40.24		71.11*	23.79		56.28	16.15		83.33	25.05
Other	52.84	16.46		51.39	16.83		49.46	25.76		39.74	34.53		56.75	27.22		53.82	19.57		90.28	17.59
Does not know	44.46*	13.76		44.07*	12.84		36.63	22.10		26.92	32.34		42.05*	24.71		44.05	21.81		87.50	16.65

	Correlation coefficient	p value	Correlation coefficient	p value	Correlation coefficient	p value	Correlation coefficient	p value	Correlation coefficient	p value	Correlation coefficient	p value	Correlation coefficient	p value
Age	− 0.127	0.114	− 0.164	0.04	− 0.075	0.348	− 0.053	0.510	− 0.052	0.515	0.040	0.616	0.014	0.866
Inpatient days (last 6 months)	− 0.046	0.571	− 0.030	0.717	-− .088	0.279	− 0.105	0.199	0.028	0.731	− 0.034	0.678	− 0.064	0.434
Outpatient visits (last 6 months)	− 0.245	0.002	− 0.224	0.005	− 0.247	0.002	− 0.281	< 0.001	− 0.108	0.177	− 0.207	0.009	0.010	0.901

^*,^‡,^⁋Between-group significant difference using ANOVA and Bonferroni Post Hoc; ^†,^Between-group adjusted significant difference using Kruskal–Wallis; ^±No adjusted significant difference using Kruskal–Wallis
SOC: Sense of coherence; QOL: Quality of life; SD: Standard deviation

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