. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 4.

Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2008 Jan 15;16(9):1049–1057. doi: 10.1007/s00520-007-0372-2

Table 5.

Multivariable analysis of association of statements of pessimism about the future with concordance about chance of cure (n=128)

Variable	OR (95%CI)	p
Statement of pessimism about the future	2.576 (1.181–5.620)	0.0174
Patient education	1.397 (0.601–3.249)	0.4370
Patient age	0.636 (0.294–1.376)	0.2507
Patient sex	1.675 (0.792–3.539)	0.1768
Patient diagnosis	1.485 (0.595–3.707)	0.3971
Patient denial	0.884 (0.711–1.099)	0.2662

C statistic=0.692. Thirteen observations were deleted due to missing values.