Quality of Life of Sardinian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and of People Living in Italy and Sardinia: Does the Kind of Care have a Role for People with Depression?

Table 3: Perceived quality of life in the different samples of persons with previous lifetime maniacal/hypomanic episodes (positivity at the MDQ).

	Sardinians in Argentina (22)	AIFA Sardinian sub-sample (9)	Aifa Total sample (103)	Comparison with Sardinians Anova 1 way df 1,29,30	Comparison with total sample Anova 1 way df 1,123,124
SF-12 Means ± standard deviation	31.85±6.38	34.10±6.70	34.07±6.21	F=0.141 P=0.246	F=2.295 P=0.132
Weight attributable (“attributable burden”) to disorder in lowering the quality of life	6.48±1.82	4.28±1.90	4.33±2.0	F=20.28 P<0.0001	F=1677,0 P<0.0001