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This study characterised HRQoL across four degenerative lumbar conditions in a multi-ethnic Southeast Asian surgical cohort and identified factors associated with physical and mental health at composite and domain levels.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cross-sectional analysis of 1173 preoperative patients from a Singaporean spine surgery registry (2017\u20132022). SF-36 norm-based T-scores were computed for eight domains and two component summaries. Diagnosis-stratified stepwise multiple regression identified factors associated with the Physical Component Summary (PCS), Mental Component Summary (MCS), and domain scores. LASSO regression served as a sensitivity analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Mean PCS was 35.6 (SD 8.9), 1.4 SD below the US normative mean, whereas MCS was 50.3 (SD 9.7), near normative levels. Physical functioning and role-physical were the most impaired domains. Scores differed across the four diagnoses on six of the ten SF-36 outcomes (one-way ANOVA, all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05; corroborated by Kruskal\u2013Wallis tests), although effect sizes were small (eta-squared\u2009\u2264\u20090.02). Functional disability showed the strongest association with PCS across all four conditions (\u03b2 range:\u2009\u2212\u20090.32 to\u2009\u2212\u20090.28; adjusted R\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.48\u20130.52). MCS models explained limited variance (adjusted R\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.09\u20130.22). At the domain level, physical functioning had the highest adjusted R\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      (0.57\u20130.67), exceeding even PCS. Indian ethnicity was independently associated with lower MCS in two conditions. LASSO sensitivity analyses corroborated the stepwise findings.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Functional disability was most strongly associated with physical HRQoL, channelled through physical functioning limitations. Conventional variables explained limited mental HRQoL variance, suggesting unmeasured psychological and cultural factors play a substantial role. 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