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