RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Association of the sense of coherence with both the baseline scores and the effect sizes. The results of the WOMAC were consistent with the physical health

Conclusions: The sense of coherence was associated with psychosocial health dimensions but hardly with physical health. The higher the load of a scale on the psychosocial dimension the higher was its correlation to the sense of coherence. This is in contrast to the idea of Antonovsky who predicted high associations with both mental and physical health