Table 2.
Correlation of baseline Hope with control covariates
| N | r | p | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Demographic variables | |||
| Age | 465 | −.004 | .938 |
| Gender (male) | 465 | .001 | .986 |
| Rural residence | 465 | −.024 | .610 |
| College graduate | 461 | −.028 | .545 |
| Married | 462 | .057 | .220 |
| Employed | 461 | .135 | .004 |
| White | 464 | .077 | .097 |
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| Cancer site | |||
| Lung | 465 | −.111 | .016 |
| Gastrointestinal | 465 | −.022 | .633 |
| Genitourinary | 465 | .028 | .548 |
| Breast | 465 | .093 | .044 |
| Hematological | 465 | .088 | .058 |
| Other cancer | 465 | .072 | .120 |
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| Illness-related variables | |||
| Days in hospital | 464 | .008 | .869 |
| Days in ICU | 344 | .029 | .590 |
| ED visits | 465 | −.008 | .864 |
| Advanced directives | 463 | −.117 | .012 |
| Do not resuscitate | 452 | −.122 | .009 |
| Chemotherapy | 465 | .020 | .672 |
| Radiation | 465 | .034 | .471 |
ICU = Intensive Care Unit; ER = Emergency Medicine Department. Analyses used pairwise deletion and significance values are not corrected for multiple comparisons.