Health-Related Quality of Life among Women Breast Cancer Patients in Eastern China

Table 4

Final model of predictors for Global Health Status scores.

	GHS of all participants	GHS of patients in TNM Stage 0–II	GHS of patients in TNM Stage III-IV
	Coefficient (SE)	Coefficient (SE)	Coefficient (SE)
Panel A: Patient characteristics
(Constant)	87.720(5.150)	102.608(6.136)	64.272(7.553)
Age	-0.146(0.053)	-0.039(-0.774)	-0.183(0.071)
Residence (ref: urban)
rural	5.454(1.220)	5.848(1.834)	2.920(1.365)
Marital status (ref: single)
Married	-0.047(-1.295)	-15.586(4.604)	-0.001(-0.015)
Divorced/widow	-0.023(-0.660)	-14.775(5.079)	-0.025(-0.506)
Educational level (ref: illiteracy /primary school)
Secondary school	-0.020(-0.582)	-0.034(-0.673)	0.024(0.509)
High school/technical secondary school	0.043(1.098)	0.085(1.461)	0.046(0.906)
university degree and above	6.432(1.275)	5.418(1.920)	8.956(1.699)
Employment status (ref: urban employee)
peasants	-4.947(1.395)	-4.515(1.898)	-0.099(-1.877)
unemployment	-4.336(1.984)	-0.092(-1.791)	-0.029(-0.647)
others	-0.037(-1.134)	-0.019(-0.395)	-0.010(-0.222)
TNM Stage (ref: 0-II)
III-IV	-1.912(0.952)	——	——
Panel B: QLQ-C30 scales
Role functioning	0.081(0.028)	0.050(0.711)	0.119(0.039)
Cognitive functioning	0.077(1.520)	0.035(0.510)	0.211(0.058)
Emotional functioning	-0.066(-1.392)	-0.047(-0.720)	-0.131(0.056)
Nausea and vomiting	0.046(1.017)	-0.056(-0.874)	0.099(0.042)
Pain	-0.125(0.038)	-0.107(0.050)	-0.140(0.055)
Dyspnoea	0.128 (0.027)	0.123(0.042)	0.104(0.035)
Fatigue	-0.135(0.043)	-0.212(0.058)	-0.130(-1.771)
insomnia	-0.049(0.023)	-0.037(-0.670)	-0.082(-1.507)
Panel C: QLQ-BR23 scales
Sexual enjoyment	-0.230(0.027)	-0.273(0.041)	-0.194(0.035)
systemic therapy side effect	-0.213(0.042)	-0.144(0.050)	-0.185(0.055)
Arm symptoms	0.078(0.034)	0.107(1.711)	0.120(1.912)
Body image	-0.053(0.025)	-0.075(-1.223)	-0.092(-1.609)

Note: stepwise regression was applied in the multiple linear regression analysis; a constant was included in each model.
SE, Standard Error; and indicate P < 0.01 and P < 0.05, respectively.