Relationships between background (clinical, demographic, pre-SAH) data and selected psychosocial outcome measures
| n† | BICRO-39 scales | Mood Disturbance (HADS+RIES)† | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Productive Employment | Mobility | Self-Organisation | |||||||
| †These NS refer to correlations with BICRO scales. Sample size is reduced by 3 for correlations with Mood Disturbance; *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.005 (all tests two-tailed); all tests non-parametric (Spearman’s ρ or Mann-Whitney U tests). | |||||||||
| Demographic characteristics | |||||||||
| Age | 49 | r = 0.32 | * | r = 0.06 | NS | r = −0.06 | NS | r = −0.12 | NS |
| Gender | 49 | Z = −0.70 | NS | Z = −1.47 | NS | Z = −0.24 | NS | Z = −0.92 | NS |
| Clinical presentation | |||||||||
| Glasgow Outcome Scale score | 49 | Z = −1.72 | NS | Z = −1.93 | 0.06 | Z = −0.46 | NS | Z = −0.12 | NS |
| Dysphasia at 3 months | 49 | Z = −2.10 | * | Z = −2.40 | * | Z = −2.56 | ** | Z = −1.60 | NS |
| Immediate prose recall at 3 months | 43 | r = −0.37 | ** | r = −0.12 | NS | r = −0.12 | NS | r = −0.13 | NS |
| Prior history | |||||||||
| Life stress (objective)—RLCQ | 49 | r = −0.03 | NS | r = −0.24 | NS | r = −0.05 | NS | r = 0.12 | NS |
| Life stress (subjective)—LCU | 49 | r = 0.13 | NS | r = 0.10 | NS | r = 0.19 | NS | r = 0.22 | NS |
| Health problems past year | 49 | r = 0.25 | NS | r = 0.38 | ** | r = 0.12 | NS | r = −0.04 | NS |
| Mental health treatment (ever) | 46 | Z = −0.07 | NS | Z = −0.72 | NS | Z = −0.70 | NS | Z = −2.00 | * |