Health status in patients at risk of inherited arrhythmias and sudden unexpected death compared to the general population

Table 4 Multiple linear regression analysis assessing the relationship between socio-demographic variables, clinical status and the SF-36 health status domains among the arrhythmia risk patients*

SF-36 Health status domains	Socio-demographic variables and clinical status	β	Standard error	p-value	R ²
Physical functioning	Age	-0.3	0.08	<0.001	0.518
	Employment	12.7	2.64	<0.001
	Heart disease in family	-8.2	2.86	0.005
	Referral	-8.9	2.84	0.002
Role physical	Age	-0.5	0.19	0.013	0.390
	Employment	27.8	6.55	<0.001
	Genetic testing in family	7.1	4.19	0.095
	Referral	-22.6	7.94	0.005
Bodily pain	Sex	13.3	4.40	0.003	0.326
	Employment	13.4	4.89	0.008
	Education status	6.8	3.15	0.032
	Sudden death in the family	8.7	4.45	0.054
	Referral	-22.7	4.98	<0.001
General health	Employment	17.5	3.77	<0.001	0.391
	Education status	4.4	2.43	0.073
	Heart disease in the family	-8.0	4.05	0.052
	Referral	-14.8	4.10	0.001
Vitality	Sex	10.0	4.44	0.027	0.302
	Employment	11.8	4.95	0.019
	Education status	11.0	3.19	0.001
	Referral	-18.2	5.05	0.001
Social functioning	Employment	12.1	4.22	0.005	0.379
	Education status	10.6	2.72	<0.001
	Referral	-20.3	4.30	<0.001
Role emotional	Employment	33.3	7.07	<0.001	0.320
	Referral	-31.2	7.39	<0.001
Mental health	Sex	8.4	3.52	0.019	0.316
	Children	-7.5	4.49	0.097
	Education status	11.5	2.42	<0.001
	Referral	-20.9	3.47	0.001
	Clinical status	7.2	5.84	0.040

*Model developed from backward stepwise selection of all socio-demographic and clinical predictors from the fully adjusted model fulfilling the inclusion criteria with p = 0.05 and exclusion criteria with p > 0.1 reported with unstandardised coefficients (β), standard error, p-values (p) and Adjusted R Square (R ²). Coding of the independent variables: sex; female = 0, male = 1, children; no = 0, yes = 1, employment; no = 0, yes = 1, education status; primary school = 1, high school = 2, college/university = 3, heart disease in family; LQTS = 1, HCM = 2, sudden death in family; no = 0, yes = 1, genetic testing in family; no = 0, yes = 1, referral; by family member = 0, by physician = 1, clinical status; family risk = 0, LQTS = 1, HCM = 2. Age was treated as continuous. The dependent variables: The SF-36 health status domains were treated as continuous (0-100).

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