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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Apr 17;121(16):2831–2839. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29415

Table 4.

Multivariable Regressions on SF-12 for Lung subjects

PCS MCS
Model 1
Lung cancer
symptom index
Model 2
Non-specific
cancer
symptom index
Model 3
Non-specific
& lung cancer
symptom
index
Model 1
Lung cancer
symptom
index
Model 2
Non-specific
cancer
symptom
index
Model 3
Non-specific
& lung cancer
symptom
index
Model Statistics
Model F-statistic (degrees of freedom) 33.7 (20,2058) 24.0 (20,2058) 37.20 (21,2057) 13.0 (20,2058) 23.4 (20,2058) 24.4 (21,2057)
  P-value for Whole Model F-statistic <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.001 <0.001
  Full model Adjusted R2 0.24 0.18 0.27 0.10 0.18 0.19
  N 2079 2079 2079 2079 2079 2079
Model coefficients(p-values) β β β β β Β

Age: ref=<65
    65–74 0.06(0.01) 0.05(0.03) 0.04(0.08) 0.07(0.004) 0.03(0.09) 0.03(0.13)
    75+ 0.02(0.43) 0.02(0.34) 0.003(0.88) 0.08(0.002) 0.06(0.01) 0.05(0.02)
Race: ref=White
    African American 0.07(<0.001) 0.06(0.01) 0.07(<0.001) −0.02(0.35) −0.03(0.14) −0.03(0.20)
    Unknown or Other 0.01(0.54) 0.004(0.82) 0.01(0.52) −0.02(0.37) −0.02(0.30) −0.02(0.37)
Gender: ref=Male
    Female 0.0003(0.99) 0.04(0.04) 0.02(0.36) −0.06(0.003) −0.02(0.25) −0.03(0.11)
Marital Status ref=Not Married
    Married 0.04(0.08) 0.05(0.03) 0.03(0.19) 0.03(0.14) 0.02(0.25) 0.02(0.44)
Education: ref=<High School
    High School Graduate −0.08(0.004) −0.04(0.22) −0.08(0.002) 0.05(0.12) 0.06(0.03) 0.04(0.13)
    Some College −0.03(0.21) 0.02(0.48) −0.04(0.17) 0.04(0.14) 0.06(0.03) 0.04(0.16)
    College Graduate −0.04(0.15) 0.01(0.78) −0.03(0.14) 0.01(0.59) 0.03(0.21) 0.01(0.55)
    >College 0.01(0.69) 0.05(0.05) 0.004(0.85) 0.05(0.05) 0.06(0.02) 0.04(0.09)
Treatment: ref=Not receiving
   Surgery −0.05(0.03) 0.01(0.50) −0.04(0.13) −0.06(0.03) −0.02(0.39) −0.03(0.24)
    Radiation −0.05(0.02) −0.003(<0.001) −0.05(0.02) −0.03(0.15) −0.04(0.06) −0.03(0.18)
    Chemotherapy −0.05(0.02) 0.04(0.51) −0.02(0.34) −0.03(0.32) 0.03(0.21) 0.03(0.26)
Stage at diagnosis: ref=Stage:0–1
    Stage:2–3 −0.03(0.34) −0.02(0.49) −0.01(0.57) −0.02(0.54) −0.002(0.95) −0.0002(0.99)
    Stage:4 −0.09(0.002) −0.06(0.03) −0.07(0.01) −0.08(0.01) −0.02(0.34) −0.06(0.04)
    Stage:unknown −0.01(0.63) −0.002(0.90) −0.01(0.77) −0.03(0.20) −0.02(0.95) −0.02(0.31)
Comorbidity: ref=None
    One −0.08(<0.001) −0.11(<0.001) −0.07(<0.001) 0.01(0.55) 0.001(0.95) 0.02(0.48)
    Two+ −0.07(<0.001) −0.08(<0.001) −0.06(0.004) −0.03(0.26) −0.02(0.47) −0.01(0.75)
Years since diagnosis 0.05(0.02) 0.02(0.30) 0.03(0.12) 0.03(0.13) 0.001(0.97) 0.004(0.84)
Cancer-type specific symptom index (lung cancer) −0.42(<0.001) −0.34(<0.001) −0.27(<0.001) −0.14(0.001)
Non-specific cancer symptom index −0.33(<0.001) −0.20(<0.001) −0.39(<0.001) −0.34(<0.001)

β=standardized coefficients; Ref=reference;

Higher scores=increasing symptoms.