Table 4.

Associations between baseline socioeconomic status and patient-reported outcomes.

	N	PCS		MCS		PSQI		CTXD
		Estimate (95% CI)	p-value+	Estimate (95% CI)	p-value+	Estimate (95% CI)	p-value+	Estimate (95% CI)	p-value+
Marital status:
Yes	485	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
No	155	0.22 (−1.75, 2.20)	0.82	−0.68 (−2.69, 1.32)	0.51	1.03 (0.34, 1.71)	0.003*	0.00 (−0.12, 0.11)	0.98
Education level:
>HS	515	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
≤HS	128	0.71 (−1.32, 2.73)	0.49	−1.93 (−3.97, 0.10)	0.06	0.66 (−0.04, 1.36)	0.06	0.18 (0.07, 0.30)	0.002*
Employment status:
Yes	302	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
No	344	−2.17(−3.81, −0.53)	<0.01*	−1.38 (−3.08, 0.32)	0.11	0.54 (−0.05,1.12)	0.07	0.05 (−0.05, 0.15)	0.33
Income:			0.005*		0.10		0.66		0.008*
>$75,000	267	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
$25K–$75K	258	−2.70 (−4.45, −0.95)	0.003*	−1.32 (−3.08, 0.45)	0.14	0.28 (−0.32, 0.87)	0.37	0.16 (0.06, 0.26)	0.002*
≤$25,000	81	−3.29 (−6.05, −0.53)	0.02	−2.99 (−5.86, −0.12)	0.04	0.24 (−0.74, 1.22)	0.62	0.16 (−0.01, 0.32)	0.06

PCS = Physical Component Summary; MCS = Mental Component Summary; PSQI = Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; CTXD = Cancer and Treatment Distress scale; HS = high school

⁺denotes overall p-value from a 2 degree of freedom test;

^*denotes significance at <.01 level