Table 4.
Associations of patient, clinical, disease, and transplant factors after transplant with physical and emotional status in univariate analyses.
| Variable | PCS | MCS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean score or Pearson’s correlation coefficient |
F/t-test | Mean score or Pearson’s correlation coefficient |
F/t-test | |
| Patient Factors | ||||
| Education | ||||
| High school or below | 42.5a | 4.98** | 49.9 | 0.54 |
| Some college or technical education |
43.8 | 51.2 | ||
| College degree (BA/BS) | 47.1a | 50.8 | ||
| Education beyond bachelor’s degree |
46.0 | 50.7 | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married/living with partner/committed |
44.9 | 1.61 | 51.1 | 1.81 |
| 43.3 | 49.4 | |||
| Other | ||||
| Occupational status | ||||
| Retired | 41.7b,d | 74.63*** | 54.6 | 18.25*** |
| Not working | 33.4b,c | 45.7 | ||
| Working or student | 47.2c,d | 51.1 | ||
| Family income | ||||
| <20,000 | 36.0e,f,g,h | 14.69*** | 45.0 | 6.77*** |
| 20,000–40,000 | 42.8e | 50.1 | ||
| 40,000–60,000 | 45.9f | 51.8 | ||
| 60,000–80,000 | 47.0g | 51.4 | ||
| >80,000 | 46.7h | 51.9 | ||
| Insurance status | ||||
| Public | 41.2 | 20.09*** | 50.1 | 0.93 |
| Private | 45.8 | 51.0 | ||
| Clinical Factors | ||||
| Comorbid conditions | ||||
| Yes | 36.0 | 8.62*** | 48.4 | 2.44* |
| No | 46.1 | 51.1 | ||
| Karnofsky score§ | 0.40*** | 0.14*** | ||
| Severity of transplant experience | ||||
| Low severity (autologous) | 45.2 | 17.21*** | 50.8 | 0.21 |
| Intermediate severity (allogeneic without chronic GVHD) |
46.2 | 50.3 | ||
| High severity (allogeneic with chronic GVHD) |
38.0 | 50.3 | ||
| Time since transplant (in years) § | 0.07 | 0.01 | ||
| Distance between transplant center and residence (in miles) § |
−0.01 | 0.02 | ||
*
P<0.05;
**
P<0.01;
***
P<0.001
§
correlation coefficient
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p: the pairwise comparison of mean scores among the categories (subgroups) with common letters is statistically significant with Bonferroni correction for the p-value