Table 3.
Associations of patient, clinical, disease, and transplant factors before transplant with physical and emotional status in univariate analyses.
| Variable | PCS | MCS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean score | F/t-test | Mean score | F/t-test | |
| Patient Factors | ||||
| Age | ||||
| < 35a | 46.2 | 3.57** | 49.7 | 2.31 |
| 35–39 | 45.3 | 49.7 | ||
| 40–44 | 45.0 | 50.8 | ||
| 45–49 | 44.4 | 50.0 | ||
| >50a | 41.7 | 52.7 | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 45.0 | 0.95 | 51.3 | 1.28 |
| Female | 44.2 | 50.2 | ||
| Race | ||||
| White | 44.2 | 2.19* | 50.6 | 0.49 |
| Other | 47.7 | 51.3 | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married/living with partner | 44.7 | 0.75 | 50.7 | 0.05 |
| Other | 43.9 | 50.6 | ||
| Clinical Factors | ||||
| Comorbid conditions | ||||
| Yes | 42.0 | 2.38* | 48.7 | 2.10* |
| No | 45.0 | 51.0 | ||
| Disease Factors | ||||
| Malignant disease | ||||
| Acute leukemia (AML or ALL) | 44.2 | 0.51 | 50.2 | 0.46 |
| Chronic leukemia (CML) | 44.0 | 50.6 | ||
| Breast cancer | 44.6 | 51.5 | ||
| Lymphoma (Hodgkin’s disease or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) |
45.6 | 50.6 | ||
| Intensity of treatment before HCT | ||||
| Less intense | 45.4 | 2.72** | 50.6 | 0.01 |
| More intense | 42.8 | 50.6 | ||
| Transplant Factors | ||||
| Type of transplant | ||||
| Allogeneic | 43.4 | 2.00* | 50.4 | 0.58 |
| Autologous | 45.2 | 50.8 | ||
| TBI in transplant conditioning regimen |
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| Yes | 43.4 | 1.80 | 50.3 | 1.02 |
| No | 45.1 | 51.2 | ||
*
P<0.05;
**
P<0.01;
***
P<0.001
a: the pairwise comparison of mean scores among categories (subgroups) is statistically significant with Bonferroni correction for the p-value