Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Lung Cancer Applying Integrative Oncology Concepts in a Certified Cancer Centre

Table 4

Association factors for the outcome financial difficulties in stage I-II and in stage III-IV lung cancer patients.

	UICC stage I-II (n = 36)		UICC stage III-IV (n = 44)
	Univariate β (S), p value	Multivariate β (S), p value	Univariate β (S), p value	Multivariate β (S), p value
Age	−1.0 (0.60), 0.09	0.1 (0.6), 0.8^1	−1.1 (0.5), 0.03	−1.2 (0.5), 0.02^1
Gender	−9.6 (10.26), 0.4	−4.9 (9.3), 0.6^1	−9.9 (11.3), 0.4	−2.7 (11.2), 0.8^1
Pain	0.5 (0.12), 0.0003	0.5 (0.2), 0.03^1	0.2 (0.15), 0.3	0.1 (0.2), 0.4^1
Low mood	11.5 (4.3), 0.01	2.2 (5.5), 0.7^1	11.5 (4.2), 0.01	6.0 (6.2), 0.3^1
Global health	−0.5 (0.2), 0.03	−0.3 (0.2), 0.22^2	0.2 (0.2), 0.3	0.4 (0.0.3), 0.13^3
General QOL	−0.4 (0.2), 0.04	−0.2 (0.2), 0.32^2	0.1 (0.2), 0.6	0.2 (0.3), 0.53^3
Insomnia	0.4 (0.1), 0.005	0.2 (0.1), 0.22^2	−0.0002 (0.2), 1.0	−0.1 (0.2), 0.63^3
Depression	14.2 (5.8), 0.02	−2.4 (8.5), 0.82^2	8.3 (6.2), 0.19	6.8 (6.0), 0.63^3
Anxiety	10.9 (6.5), 0.1	4.8 (7.1), 0.52^2	12.3 (6.1), 0.05	8.0 (6.9), 0.33^3
Add-on VA	12.5 (11.7), 0.3	10.2 (10.6), 0.3^2	24.3 (11.2), 0.04	23.0 (39.5), 0.2^3
Dyspnoea	0.1 (0.15), 0.5	−0.2 (0.2), 0.3^2	0.1 (0.15), 0.5	0.05 (0.2), 0.8^3
Appetite loss	0.1 (0.14), 0.3	−0.01 (0.1), 0.9^2	0.001 (0.15), 1.0	−0.02 (0.1), 0.9^3
Stress	9.6 (5.3), 0.08	−1.5 (6.1), 0.8^2	8.7 (6.4), 0.2	7.5 (7.1), 0.3^3

Association factors for the outcome: financial difficulties, EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire, version 3.0. univariate and multivariate linear regression modelling, QOL, quality of life, β = estimate, and S = error; ¹Adjusted for age, gender, pain, and low mood; ²Adjusted for age, pain, and low mood; ³Adjusted for age and low mood; add-on VA, additional Viscum album L. extracts; ; .