Table 1.

Potential Predictors of the Intercept (I) and Linear Coefficient (LC) for Depressive Symptoms Using Preoperative Characteristics

Characteristic	I	LC
Demographic characteristics
Age	■
Lives alone	■
Education
Marital status	■
Ethnicity	■
Employment status
Clinical characteristics
Body mass index
Karnofsky Performance Status score	■
Self-Administered Comorbidity Questionnaire score	■
Stage of disease
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Type of surgery
Sentinel lymph node biopsy
Axillary lymph node dissection
Breast reconstruction at the time of surgery		■
Menopausal status
Adjuvant radiation therapy in first six months
Adjuvant chemotherapy in the first six months	■
Symptoms
Trait anxiety score	■	■
State anxiety score	■	■
Attentional Function Index score	■	■
Lee Fatigue Scale - Fatigue score	■
Lee Fatigue Scale - Energy score	■
General Sleep Disturbance Scale score	■	■
Presence of breast pain prior to surgery	■
Worst pain score	■
Average pain score	■
Number of days per week in pain	■
Number of hours per day in pain	■
Severity of hot flashes	■
Severity of changes in appetite	■
Psychosocial adjustment characteristics
Difficulty coping as a result of disease/treatment	■	■
Distress of initial diagnosis	■	■
Fear of future diagnostic tests	■	■
Fear of metastasis	■	■
Control of things in your life	■	■
Amount of uncertainty about the future	■	■

■ = From the exploratory analysis, had a t value of ≥ 2.