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Table 1 Participating patient characteristics

From: The CARE Plus study – a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis

Characteristics

Usual care (N = 76)

CARE Plus (N = 76)

p value for difference between groups

Sex:

 Female

39 (51 %)

46 (61 %)

0.35

 Male

37 (49 %)

30 (39 %)

 

Age:

Mean (SD)

53.1 (8.0)

51.9 (9.6)

0.52

 <50

22 (29 %)

28 (37 %)

 

 50–59

34 (45 %)

28 (37 %)

 

  ≥ 60

20 (26 %)

20 (26 %)

 

Index of Multiple Deprivation:

 Mean (SD)

52.8 (21.9)

49.8 (22.0)

0.54

 Q1 (least deprived)

2 (3 %)

2 (3 %)

 

 Q2

1 (1 %)

3 (4 %)

 

 Q3

4 (5 %)

5 (6 %)

 

 Q4

7 (9 %)

8 (11 %)

 

 Q5 (most deprived)

61 (82 %)

57 (76 %)

 

Number of chronic conditions:

 Mean (SD)

5.1 (2.1)

4.8 (2.6)

0.51

 2

7 (9 %)

14 (18 %)

 

 3

12 (16 %)

11 (14 %)

 

 4

14 (18 %)

18 (24 %)

 

 5

13 (17 %)

12 (16 %)

 

 ≥6

30 (40 %)

21 (28 %)

 

Burden of multimorbidity

 Mean (SD)

3.1 (1.0)

3.2 (1.1)

0.40

Primary patient outcomes

 EQ5D-5 L

0.419 (0.325)

0.419 (0.318)

0.99

 W-BQ12 General Well-being Score (total)

16.0 (8.0)

14.3 (9.0)

0.29

 W-BQ12 Negative Well-being Score

5.1 (3.5)

6.3 (4.1)

0.14

 W-BQ12 Energy Score

3.2 (2.7)

3.1 (2.8)

0.86

 W-BQ12 Positive Well-being Score

5.8 (3.5)

5.7 (3.7)

0.79

  1. Summary statistics are presented as mean (SD) or number (per cent)