Trained and certified assessors collected baseline data from study participants. Significance was achieved on one site variable and indicated a negative relationship. Our results suggest that persons with deficit syndrome experience lower quality of life than those who are non-deficit. The result is expected given the use of clinical assessment of quality of life and is contrary to the expectation of higher self-reported quality of life for persons with deficit. The interpretation of significance on the insurance and site variables is less clear and may suggest that the observed variation is a result of an unobserved mediating process, such as selection or differential access.
Clinical syndrome can inform both practice and policy decisions.