Table 4 Analysis of covariance for the impact of psychological stress, demographic and social factors on domains of quality of life among patients with hypertension
Domains of QOL | Physical | Psychological | Social | Environmental | Global | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Factors | F-value (df) | p | F-value (df) | p | F-value (df) | p | F-value (df) | p | F-value (df) | p |
Stress | 9.3 (1) | 0.00 | 5.2 (1) | 0.02 | 7.9 (1) | 0.005 | 5.4 (1) | 0.02 | 4.6 (1) | 0.03 |
Age | 0.09 (1) | 0.77 | 0.04 (1) | 0.83 | 0.5 (1) | 0.48 | 0.24 (1) | 0.63 | 0.1 (1) | 0.75 |
Gender | 2.6 (1) | 0.11 | 16.1 (1) | 0.00 | 9.4 (1) | 0.002 | 5.02 (1) | 0.03 | 4.02 (1) | 0.04 |
Education | 4.5 (5) | 0.00 | 2.9 (5) | 0.02 | 2.9 (5) | 0.01 | 3.5 (5) | 0.00 | 0.93 (5) | 0.47 |
Income | 5.7 (3) | 0.00 | 5.1 (3) | 0.00 | 1.7 (3) | 0.16 | 9.1 (3) | 0.00 | 3.5 (3) | 0.02 |