ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to express appreciation to the Fulbright Program for partial support for this project; to the University of Turku Hospital staff and administrators for their contributions; and to Prof. Aimo Salmi, MD, Vice Rector, University of Turku, for his support.
Notes
1. Note: No studies employing SF-36 Finnish Version 1 were found. Although several studies have been conducted by the National Research & Development Centre for Welfare & Health (STAKES), Helsinki, Finland, employing SF-36 items, their scoring is different thereby rendering results less than comparable.
1 Missing items.
1 p < 0.05; Pearson correlations.
1 p < 0.05; Pearson correlations.