Table 5.

Linear regression model FACT-B total score and musculoskeletal pain

	Change in mean FACT-B score	95% CI	p-value 1
Baseline constant	106.01	96.62, 115.41	p < 0.001
Report musculoskeletal pain	-5.05	-8.78, -1.33	p = 0.008
Age	+0.19	+0.03, +0.34	p = 0.017
History of fibromyalgia	-16.95	-31.40, -2.49	p = 0.022
History of depression	-8.44	-13.36, -3.52	p = 0.001
Surgery: sentinel node biopsy	-9.49	-13.30, -5.68	p < 0.001
Surgery: axillary clearance	-4.82	-9.62, -0.03	p = 0.049
Current opioid painkiller use	-9.01	-13.65, -4.36	p < 0.001
Current OTC painkiller use	-4.30	-7.73, -0.87	p = 0.014
Hospital recruitment site	-0.09	-0.59, +0.41	p = 0.721

¹Overall Likelihood ratio estimate for the model, p = 0.0038.