The impact of clinical conditions and social factors on the psychological distress of cancer patients: an explorative study at a consultation and liaison service in a rural general hospital

Valdes-Stauber, Juan; Vietz, Eva; Kilian, Reinhold

doi:10.1186/1471-244X-13-226

Table 3 Associations between socio-demographic and clinical variables with psychological distress

From: The impact of clinical conditions and social factors on the psychological distress of cancer patients: an explorative study at a consultation and liaison service in a rural general hospital

*Dependent variables*	Mood swings		Cognitive impairment		Anxiety		Grief		Sleep disorders		Helplessness		Shame		Sum score psychological distress
*Regressors*	BETA	p	BETA	p	BETA	p	BETA	p	BETA	p	BETA	p	BETA	p	BETA	p
1. Referral mode	0.146	0.017	0.032	0.651	0.099	0.105	0.107	0.056	0.044	0.499	0.109	0.098	0.085	0.317	0.107	0.062
2. Age	−0.121	0.107	0.450	0.533	−0.098	0.227	−0.099	0.166	0.005	0.951	−0.151	0.040	−0.113	0.252	−0.129	0.051
3. Gender	0.106	0.075	−0.024	0.666	0.093	0.125	0.049	0.331	0.091	0.108	0.058	0.285	0.025	0.640	0.073	0.166
4. Steady relationships	−0.035	0.541	0.138	0.023	−0.041	0.475	−0.036	0.511	−0.023	0.705	−0.019	0.760	0.041	0.661	0.024	0.635
5. Working situation	0.035	0.653	−0.131	0.068	−0.047	0.554	−0.026	0.715	−0.017	0.832	0.079	0.285	−0.014	0.859	−0.041	0.565
6. Having children	−0.004	0.935	0.030	0.598	−0.030	0.540	−0.052	0.291	−0.085	0.104	−0.021	0.648	−0.002	0.968	−0.056	0.196
7. Problems in family	−0.004	0.938	−0.021	0.711	−0.079	0.117	0.124	0.011	0.070	0.226	0.007	0.909	−0.063	0.344	−0.069	0.110
8. Fatigue	0.202	0.001	0.230	0.000	0.212	0.001	0.349	0.000	0.276	0.000	0.178	0.008	0.156	0.010	0.299	0.000
9. Pain	0.145	0.022	0.041	0.578	0.066	0.003	0.060	0,290	0.099	0.191	0.061	0.350	0.079	0.398	0.081	0.162
10. No metastases	−0.273	0.000	−0.023	0.716	−0.187	0.002	−0.155	0.007	0.051	0.429	−0.135	0.048	0.086	0.216	−0.042	0.007
11. Metastases status unknown	−0.165	0.021	−0.011	0.878	−0.223	0.338	−0.167	0.011	−0.026	0.730	−0.115	0.139	0.108	0.165	−0.146	0.030
12. Duration of illness	−0.072	0.181	0.167	0.076	−0.054	0.177	−0.001	0.995	0.069	0.249	−0.007	0.902	−0.046	0.394	0.036	0.540
13. Previous psych. treatment	−0.009	0.864	−0.002	0.980	−0.070	0.658	−0.065	0.203	0.020	0.751	−0.042	0.482	−0.001	0.984	−0.053	0.273
14. Performance status	−0.036	0.642	0.449	0.493	−0.031	0.658	0.061	0.295	0.015	0.861	−0.001	0.992	−0.007	0.934	0.018	0.765
15. Functional limitations	0.122	0.146	0.191	0.041	0.163	0.053	0.146	0.056	0.040	0.692	0.265	0.001	0.195	0.066	0.273	0.005
*Constant*	1.63	0.000	0.04	0.914	2.24	0.000	1.87	0.001	0.26	0.522	0.95	0.007	0.27	0.255	9.23	0.000
*F/Prob > F*	11.66/ <0.001		4.01/ <0.001		10.41/ <0.001		20.39/ <0.001		3.23/ <0.001		7.30/ <0.001		2.70/ <0.001		19.02/ <0.001
R2	0.34		0.27		0.32		0.46		0.16		0.31		0.14		0.45
N	273		273		273		273		273		273		273		273

b = Regression coefficient; p = Level of significance; R² = Share of explained variance; F = value in F-Distribution. Base-outcome for metastases = confirmed metastases. Referral mode: 0 = Patients from Breast and Bowel centres; 1 = Patients referred by other services if mental status requires it. Continuous variables: 2, 12, and dependent variable “sum score psychological distress”; Interval-scaled variables: 8,9,14,15 and all dependent variables with the exception of Sum score psychological distress; dichotomous variables: Dep. Variables 1 (0 = breast and bowel centres; 1 = Referred if needed), 3 (0 = men; 1 = women), 4,5,6,7,13 (0 = no; 1 = given). Other dichotomous variables: not applicable (0), applicable (1). Bold figures: significant differences (p < 0.05); note: under Bonferroni correction p-level downsizes to 0.004.

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