IJME - Health-related quality of life of students from a private medical school in Brazil

Table 2. SF-36 normalized scores (mean ± sd) of students according to year of course in a private medical school, Salvador, Brazil, 2013

Domain/Component Summary	1^st Year (n=28)	2^nd Year (n=31)	3^rd Year (n=32)	4^th Year (n=32)	5^th Year (n=26)	6^thYear (n=31)
Physical Functioning (PF)	50.4 ± 5.9	53.0 ± 6.4	50.0 ± 8.1	49.9 ± 8.4	52.2 ± 5.7	53.6 ± 6.8
Role Physical (RP)	44.1 ± 10.0	46.2 ± 10.8	42.8 ± 11.8	44.3 ± 12.8	48.9 ± 10.7	43.9 ± 11.0
Bodily Pain (BP)	52.0 ± 9.2	49.6 ± 7.8	49.4 ± 9.3	48.3 ± 9.7	52.6 ± 9.6	49.8 ± 8.9
General Health (GH)	46.1 ± 7.0	45.7 ± 5.8	45.3 ± 7.1	45.1 ± 8.1	48.0 ± 7.4	47.1 ± 7.9
Vitality (VT)	47.0 ± 7.2	42.8 ± 8.5	45.1 ± 9.3	42.2 ± 9.1^¶	52.1 ± 8.6^¶	48.3 ± 11.7
Social Functioning (SF)	44.3 ± 11.0	41.1 ± 13.2	39.5 ± 11.5	40.9 ± 10.9	47.3 ± 10.3	42.8 ± 10.5
Role Emotional (RE)	44.8 ± 12.2	44.9 ± 7.8	39.2 ± 13.9	40.2 ± 14.6	46.4 ± 13.6	39.0 ± 13.6
Mental Health (MH)	48.0 ± 6.7	44.9 ± 7.8	44.8 ± 10.8	42.4 ± 12.1^‡	51.8 ± 8.0^‡	44.9 ± 10.2
Physical Component Summary (PCS)	49.2 ± 6.6	51.4 ± 7.2	49.3 ± 7.7	49.6 ± 6.7	51.3 ± 5.3	51.8 ± 7.4
Mental Component Summary (MCS)	45.1 ± 9.1	39.8 ± 11.3^*	40.8 ± 12.1	38.7 ± 12.1^*	48.5 ± 10.4^†	40.4 ± 12.2

*, †: p < 0.05; ‡,‡: p < 0.005; ¶, ¶: p < 0.001.

Int J Med Educ. 2015; 6:149-154; doi: 10.5116/ijme.563a.5dec