Table 4.

Factors influencing health-related quality of life among hospitalized cancer cases in India

Parameter		B	Std. Error	95% Confidence Interval		p-value*
				Lower	Upper
(Intercept)		0.500	0.038	0.426	0.574	0.000
Age		-0.002	0.000	-0.003	-0.001	0.000
Hospital Days		-0.003	0.002	-0.006	0.000	0.060
Type of Hospital (Reference - Public)	Semi-private	0.231	0.016	0.200	0.263	0.000
Education (Refernce- No Education)	Primary & Middle	0.031	0.020	-0.009	0.071	0.133
	Up to Senior Secondary	0.031	0.021	-0.009	0.072	0.128
	Graduation & above	0.075	0.023	0.030	0.120	0.001
Type of Cancer (Reference-Solid)	Haematological	-0.033	0.027	-0.086	0.020	0.218
Type of Treatment (Reference- Chemotherapy)	Radiotherapy	-0.025	0.033	-0.090	0.039	0.440
	Palliative care	-0.258	0.056	-0.367	-0.149	0.000
	Surgery	-0.127	0.033	-0.192	-0.062	0.000
	Combination Therapy**	-0.133	0.024	-0.181	-0.085	0.000
	Maintenance Therapy	-0.702	0.151	-0.998	-0.406	0.000
	On diagnostic workup	-0.144	0.037	-0.216	-0.072	0.000
	Hormone Therapy	-0.163	0.184	-0.523	0.198	0.377
	Immunotherapy	0.098	0.062	-0.022	0.219	0.110
	Others (clinical follow up)	-0.136	0.029	-0.193	-0.080	0.000
Line of Treatment (Reference - First Line)	Second Line	-0.065	0.025	-0.114	-0.017	0.008
	Third Line	0.037	0.062	-0.084	0.158	0.550
	Fourth Line	0.117	0.104	-0.086	0.321	0.258
Response to Treatment (Reference– Disease free survival)	Progressive	-0.149	0.040	-0.227	-0.071	0.000
	Ongoing	0.016	0.024	-0.031	0.064	0.504
Adverse Effect (Reference - With Adverse Effect)	Without Adverse Effect	0.085	0.025	0.037	0.133	0.001

*Level of significance at p- value less than 0.05, **Combination therapy– Chemotherapy + Radiotherapy, Surgery + Radiotherapy, Surgery + Chemotherapy, Surgery + Chemotherapy + Radiotherapy. Ongoing treatment-response cannot be assessed among patients on active oncology treatment