Table 1.
Variable Name |
Type | Number of Levels or Values |
Description | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | age | continuous | 51 | age at enrollment |
2 | race | binary | 7 | 1 - Black/African American; 2 - Asian; |
3 - Caucasian; 4 - Hispanic/Latin; etc. | ||||
3 | language | nominal | 5 | 1 - English; 2 - Spanish; etc. |
4 | education | ordinal | 5 | education level: 1 - Grade school; |
2 - High school; etc. | ||||
5 | religion | nominal | 22 | 1 - Atheist; 2 - Buddhist; 3 - Catholic; |
4 - Christian; 5 - Jehovah Witness; etc. | ||||
6 | marital | nominal | 6 | marital status: 1 - Never Married; |
2 - Married; 3 - Living with partner; etc. | ||||
7 | family | nominal | 14 | family type: 1 - spouse; 2 - parents; |
3 - children; etc. | ||||
8 | numfamily | count | 7 | number of family members |
9 | employment | nominal | 4 | 1 - full time; 2 - part time; |
3 - retired; 0 - others. | ||||
10 | income | ordinal | 7 | annual family income level: 1 - $10,000 or less; |
2 - $10,000-$20,000; 3 - $20,000-$30,000; etc. | ||||
11 | other.cancer | binary | 2 | 0 - none; 1 - yes |
12 | surgery | nominal | 3 | surgery type: 1 - lumpectomy; |
2 - mastectomy; 0 - others | ||||
13 | chemotherapy | binary | 2 | 0 - no; 1 - yes |
14 | radiotherapy | binary | 2 | 0 - no; 1 - yes |
15 | rad.type | nominal | 3 | radiation type: 0 - none; 1 - primary; |
2 - postoperative. | ||||
16 | hormonal | binary | 2 | 0 - no; 1 - yes |
17 | type.horm | nominal | 3 | hormonal type: 0 - none; 1 - Tamoxifen; 2 - others |
18 | fatigue | binary | 2 | 0 - no; 1 - yes |
19 | medfat | binary | 2 | any medicine for fatigue? 0 - no; 1 - yes |
20 | support | binary | 2 | currently with a breast cancer support group? |
0 - no; 1 - yes | ||||
21 | nmth.diag | continuous | 20 | months since diagnosis |