Association of health checkups with health-related quality of life among public servants: a nationwide survey in Taiwan

Table 2 Association of 3 types of health checkups with PCS or MCS scores for quality of life among public servants aged 40 to 64 years in Taiwan (N = 11,454) by using a general linear model after adjustment for covariates

Level	CRUDE		Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Level	Mean	P value	Mean	P value	Mean	P value	Mean	P value
PCS
GPHC	51.54		51.46		50.31		50.03
SPHC	51.02		50.90		49.72		49.41
NOHC	51.19		50.93		49.86		49.67
GPHC vs. SPHC	0.52	0.002*	0.56	0.0008*	0.60	0.0003*	0.62	0.0001*
GPHC vs. NOHC	0.35	0.06	0.53	0.004*	0.46	0.01*	0.35	0.05
SPHC vs. NOHC	-0.17	0.32	-0.03	0.84	-0.14	0.42	-0.27	0.12
MCS
GPHC	44.08		45.14		44.43		45.03
SPHC	44.18		45.21		44.46		45.00
NOHC	43.56		44.57		43.93		44.69
GPHC vs. SPHC	-0.10	0.65	-0.07	0.77	-0.04	0.87	0.03	0.9
GPHC vs. NOHC	0.52	0.04*	0.57	0.02*	0.49	0.05*	0.34	0.16
SPHC vs. NOHC	0.62	0.008*	0.64	0.006*	0.53	0.02*	0.31	0.17

Crude model: only health checkup category in the model
Model 1: Adjusted for gender, age, education, income, and marital status
Model 2: Adjusted for gender, age, education, income, marital status, sector type, shift work, and managerial position
Model 3: Adjusted for gender, age, education, income, marital status, sector type, shift work, managerial position, regular exercise, vegetables or fruit intake, and health status variable including obesity
^*P < .05
Mean, least square mean; GPHC, government-paid health checkups; SPHC, self-paid health checkups; NOHC, no health checkups; PCS, physical component summary; MCS, mental component summary

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