Cancer Pain Management and Pain Interference with Daily Functioning among Cancer Patients in Gondar University Hospital

Table 4

Relationship between predictive variables and severity of pain interference on functioning at Gondar University Hospital, Gondar, Ethiopia.

Variables	Severity of pain interference on functioning		, value	AOR (95% CI)	value
	Moderate-severe	No/mild
Age in years (mean)	50.20	47.23	—	1.02 (0.24, 11.22)	0.43
Gender			7.93,
Male	16	26		0.52 (0.56, 7.33)	0.37
Female	28	13		1	Rf
Level of education			7383, 0.22
Illiterate	25	17		1	Rf
Primary school	9	9		0.59 (0.05, 6.66)	0.47
Secondary school	8	5		1.85 (0.434, 5.23)	0.50
College/university	2	8		0.85 (0.85, 2.23)	0.12
Stage of tumor			9.54, 0.10
Stage I	3	4		0.27	0.03
Stage II	6	14		0.09	0.02
Stage III	22	15		0.35 (0.067, 1.46)	0.13
Stage IV	13	6		1	Rf
Metastasis			3.15, 0.18
Present	11	8		2.35 (1.46, 6.35	0.001
Absent	26	38		1	Rf
History of treatment modality			6.53, 0.18
Chemotherapy	28	33		1	Rf
Surgery	3	2		2.7 (0.67, 5.11)	0.38
Combination	13	4		3.01	0.04
Comorbidity			2.24, 0.41
Present	11	5		2.00 (0.8, 12.1)	0.35
Absent	33	34		1	Rf
Hx of pain			12.53,
Present	43	28		16.45 (1.32, 204.69	0.029
Absent	1	11		1	Rf
Pain management adequacy			4.92, 0.06
Present	11	18		0.46	0.034
Absent	33	20		1	Rf
PMI (mean)	−1.23	−0.795	—	0.88	0.06

Notes. significant at . significant at ; COD, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; Rf, reference variable.