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Table 1 Mean (standard deviation) of Self-Rating Questionnaire (SRQ) scores by orthopaedic diagnosis

From: Psychological distress among patients of an orthopaedic outpatient clinic: a study from a low-income country

 

Overall

Men

Women

 

Mean (SD)

N

Mean (SD)

N

Mean (SD)

N

Major fracture

10.14 (5.5)a

243

9.07 (5.1)

146

11.74 (5.8)

97

Small fracture

9.74 (6.3)

77

7.25 (5.8)

39

12.29 (5.9)

38

Other bone pathology

12.50 (5.2)b

78

9.62 (5.8)

24

13.78 (4.4)

54

Sprain and others

8.12 (6.2)

24

5.62 (4.6)

13

11.09 (6.7)

11

Arthritis

12.03 (5.7)c

238

8.02 (5.1)

49

13.07 (5.4)

189

PID/backache

12.43 (4.7)

65

10.70 (4.9)

27

13.65 (4.1)

38

Dislocation

8.2 (7.3)

10

5.00 (6.8)

5

11.4 (6.9)

5

Frozen joint

10.41 (5.9)

17

7.67 (5.0)

6

11.9 (5.9)

11

Wound

9.68 (5.8)

114

7.60 (4.9)

55

11.62 (5.9)

59

Other

8.38 (5.2)

21

7.62 (4.4)

8

8.85 (5.8)

13

Medically unexplained

10.90 (5.5)

90

8.68 (5.3)

35

12.31 (5.2)

55

  1. Bonferroni correction.
  2. aSignificantly different from other bone pathology, arthritis and PID/backache.
  3. bSignificantly different from sprain and others and wound.
  4. cSignificantly different from wound.
  5. PID = pelvic inflammatory disease.