BMC Health Services Research

official impact factor 1.72

Open Access Research article

Socio-demographic factors and self-reported funtional status: the significance of social support

S Koukouli1,2*, IG Vlachonikolis3 and A Philalithis1

Author Affiliations

1 Health Planning Division, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece

2 School of Social Work, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

3 Biostatistics Division, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece

For all author emails, please log on.

BMC Health Services Research 2002, 2:20 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-2-20

Published: 2 October 2002

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Questionnaire.pdf: a shortened form of the questionnaire used.

Format: PDF Size: 79KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional File 2:

Functioning.pdf: histograms of the distribution of the five functioning questions by sex and age.

Format: PDF Size: 8KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional File 3:

Physical health 1.pdf: Table A shows the 'Means and adjusted means (analysis of variance and analysis of covariance) of the generic physical health status variables for the five functioning scales'. Table B presents the 'Adjusted means (analysis of covariance) of the specific diseases (only the positive answers) for the five functioning scales'.

Format: PDF Size: 109KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional File 4:

Physical health 2.pdf: histograms for the mean scores (analysis of variance) of the three indexes (SL, MSCR, MSORM) by disease.

Format: PDF Size: 4KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data