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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2013 Dec 17;20(3):387–395. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2013.12.001

Table 5.

Adjusted Means for PCS, MCS, and FACT-G

Adjusted Means
Factor PCS MCS FACT-G
Physical Symptom Distress1
  High 43.7 (5.5) 44.2 (5.7) 78.1 (8.4)
  Med 49.2 (3.2) 51.7 (3.1) 89.5 (2.1)
  Low 53.2 (4.0) 54.6 (3.7) 95.5 (3.5)

Occurrence of Immunosuppression
  No 50.0 (5.4)
  Yes 46.0 (6.1)

Age
  Older (>55) 45.2 (5.6) 52.9 (6.7)
  Younger (< 30) 54.7 (4.9) 50.1 (4.0)

Ethnicity
  Hispanic 50.8 (5.5) 51.0 (6.7)
  Non-Hispanic 46.2(5.7) 47.6 (5.6)

Transplant Type
  RIC 51.2 (6.7)
  Myeloablative 47.3 (5.4)

Marital Status
  Married 50.5 (6.1)
  Non-married 47.3 (6.6)

Comorbidity Index Score
  0 47.5 (7.2)
  1–2 54.2 (3.5)
  >3 48.1 (6.0)

Abbreviations: PCS, Physical Component Score; MCS, Mental Component Score; FACT-G, Functional Assessment for Cancer Therapy-General; RIC, reduced-intensity conditioning.

NOTE:

1

theoretical range 0–100; a score of < 10 was considered “low” (e.g. healthy population), 10 – 15 as “mild/moderate” (i.e. disease free population; newly diagnosed), and >15 as “high” (i.e. active treatment; high burden cancer type).