The relationship of personal budgets with independence, participation and quality of life; a secondary analysis of survey data using propensity score matching

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 2 Estimated values for the dependent variables (on a scale from 1 to 10) independence, participation and quality of life for respondents who have chosen a PB or help in kind (n = 446)

	sample	personal budget	in kind	difference	standard error	t	p
on independence	uncorrected	7.879	8.007	−0.128	0.103	−1.24	n.s.
on independence	ATT multilevel	7.911	7.744	0.167	0.137	1.22	n.s.
on participation	uncorrected	6.629	6.940	−0.311	0.137	−2.28	sig.
on participation	ATT multilevel	6.648	6.551	0.096	0.198	0.49	n.s.
on quality of life	uncorrected	7.538	7.889	−0.352	0.117	−3.01	sig.
on quality of life	ATT multilevel	7.557	7.464	0.093	0.171	0.54	n.s.

Uncorrected: uncorrected for propensity score matching
ATT multilevel: corrected for propensity score matching (average treatment effect on the treated) and multilevel