Table 5.

Relation between symptoms presence and CAM use, and HD patients’ QoL (overall health)

	Model 3		Model 4
	Beta	p-value	Beta	p-value
Intercept	3.52	0.011	4.01	0.004
Symptoms, number	-0.16	< 0.001	-0.16	< 0.001
CAM profile 1	xxx	xxx	0.72	0.149
CAM profile 2	xxx	xxx	0.39	0.470
CAM profile 3	xxx	xxx	0.65	0.087
CAM profile 4	xxx	xxx	-0.27	0.517
CAM use, yes	0.38	0.199	xxx	xxx
Age, years	≈0.00	0.865	-0.01	0.774
Gender, male	0.48	0.139	0.51	0.108
Civil status, separated	0.08	0.885	-0.19	0.723
Civil status, free union	-0.25	0.601	-0.63	0.217
Civil status, widow	0.42	0.499	0.13	0.841
Work status, inactive	0.03	0.960	0.03	0.956
Work status, retired	0.06	0.897	0.19	0.711
Children, yes	0.30	0.380	0.49	0.159
Smoking status, old smoker	-0.32	0.339	-0.35	0.283
Smoking status, current smoker	0.32	0.539	0.31	0.544
Months in hemodialysis	≈0.00	0.749	≈0.00	0.665
Other method of dialysis, yes	-0.12	0.831	≈0.00	0.996
On transplantation waiting list, yes	-0.30	0.412	-0.45	0.224
Use of antihypertensive, yes	0.01	0.977	0.06	0.898
Use of vitamins, yes	-0.22	0.588	-0.17	0.695
Use of iron complements, yes	0.22	0.561	0.19	0.637
Use of painkiller, yes	0.01	0.967	-0.09	0.788
Use of antidepressants, yes	-0.22	0.602	-0.33	0.449
Use of others treatments, yes	-0.14	0.613	-0.14	0.613
Cardiac insufficiency, present	0.25	0.560	0.14	0.747
Arterial hypertension, present	0.32	0.468	0.42	0.356
Diabetes, present	-0.34	0.239	-0.20	0.484
COPD, present	1.08	0.077	1.19	0.068
Heart arrhythmia, present	0.26	0.474	0.27	0.474
Legs arteritis, present	0.14	0.763	0.33	0.484
Cancer, present	0.08	0.883	0.31	0.550
Hepatitis, present	-0.01	0.989	-0.07	0.920
	N = 85		N = 85
	Adjusted R-squared = 0.21		Adjusted R-squared = 0.24