Table 3.
Reduced Symptom Burden at Three Weeks and Twelve Weeks for Patients with Moderate to Severe Symptom Burden following Admission to Home-Based Primary Care Program
| Comparisons: change in mean score over 2 time points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symptom | Predictors | F value | p value | Baseline to 3 weeks t value (p value) | Baseline to 12 weeks t value (p value) | 3 weeks to 12 weeks t value (p value) |
| 1. Pain | Time | 5.02 | 0.0084* | 2.08 (0.0397)** | 3.11 (0.0024)** | 0.71 (0.4797) |
| Gender | 1.02 | 0.3176 | ||||
| Age | 9.18 | 0.0036* | ||||
| 2. Depression | Time | 17.44 | <0.0001* | 5.74 (<0.0001)** | 3.92 (0.0004)** | −1.22 (0.2283) |
| Gender | 0.05 | 0.8227 | ||||
| Age | 0.01 | 0.9105 | ||||
| Charlson score | 0.14 | 0.7082 | ||||
| 3. Loss of appetite | Time | 3.81 | 0.0252 | 0.83 (0.4082) | 2.73 (0.0074)** | 1.85 (0.0667) |
| Gender | 1.90 | 0.1730 | ||||
| Race | 1.42 | 0.2380 | ||||
| 4. Anxiety | Time | 33.95 | <0.0001* | 7.39 (<0.0001)** | 6.46 (<0.001)** | −0.24 (0.8090) |
| Age | 10.63 | 0.0026* | ||||
| Race | 3.63 | 0.0655 | ||||
| Charlson score | 8.97 | 0.0052* | ||||
| 5. Tiredness | Time | 10.19 | 0.0002* | 4.51 (<0.0001)** | 3.97 (0.0002)** | −0.35 (0.7262) |
| Age | 0.10 | 0.7500 | ||||
| Race | 0.27 | 0.6059 | ||||
| Charlson score | 1.39 | 0.2426 | ||||
*
Significant p value based on 0.01758 alpha (correcting for multiple comparisons).
**
Significant p value based p <0.05 based on corrected Tukey.