Question—responses | TAH (n = 41) | TLH (n = 29) | p valuea | |
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1.1 Opinion of health at present (visual analogue scores) | 70 (55.5–81.0) | 76 (61.0–84.0) | 0.375 | |
1.2 Health now compared to one year ago | Much better | 12 (29.3) | 10 (34.5) | 0.253 |
Somewhat better | 3 (7.3) | 7 (24.9) | ||
About the same | 21 (51.2) | 9 (31.0) | ||
Somewhat worse | 4 (9.8) | 2 (6.9) | ||
Much worse | 1 (2.4) | 1 (3.4) | ||
2.1 No. whose activities of daily living were limited by health | 30 (75.0) | 21 (72.4) | 0.809 | |
6.1 ‘Get sick a little easier’ than other people | True | 3 (7.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0.108 |
False | 29 (70.7) | 28 (96.6) | ||
Don’t know | 9 (22.0) | 1 (3.4) | ||
6.2 No. who felt they were ‘as healthy as anybody’ they know | 33 (56.1) | 20 (69.0) | 0.338 | |
6.3 No. who expected their health to ‘get worse’ | 5 (12.2) | 2 (6.9) | 0.511 | |
6.4 No. who felt their health was ‘excellent’ | 27 (65.9) | 22 (75.8) | 0.920 |