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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Oct 11;170(18):1686–1694. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.337

Table 4.

Multivariable Correlates of Disability in Cancer Patients with Pain and/or Depression *

Variable Sheehan Disability Scale ≥ 14 Disability Days
in past 4 weeks

Beta t-value Odds Ratio 95%CL
Categorical

    Gender (female vs. male) −0.21 −0.80 1.30 0.79–2.12

    Race (black/others vs. white) 0.46 1.49 1.52 0.83–2.78

    Marital (married vs. other) −0.04 −0.15 0.72 0.45–1.14

Continuous

    Depression – HSCL-20 score (per 0.5 units on 0–4 scale) 0.90 6.99 1.60 1.24–2.07

    Somatic symptom score (per 5 units on 0–44 scale) 0.42 3.48 1.51 1.19–1.92

    Age (per 10 years) 0.19 1.53 1.03 0.81–1.31

    Socioeconomic disadvantage index (per 1 unit on 0–3 scale) 0.20 1.49 1.09 0.84–1.41

    Pain severity – BPI score (per 1 unit on 0–10 scale) 0.07 1.33 1.04 0.94–1.15

    Medical comorbidity (per 1 unit on 0–9 scale) −0.01 −0.07 0.93 0.80–1.09

    Anxiety – GAD-7 score (per 5 units on 0–21 scale) −0.11 −0.77 1.05 0.80–1.38
*

Multiple linear regression for Sheehan Disability Scale, p < .0001, R2 = 0.33.

Multiple logistic regression for Disability Days ( ≥ 14 days vs. < 14 days in past 4 weeks), X2(df=10) = 96.31, p < .0001, R2 = 0.21

p < .001