Table 3. Multivariable Analysis of Predictors of Higher Symptom Burden Using Longitudinal Ordinal Logistic Regression^a.

Characteristic	Odds Ratio	95% CI	P value
Age	1.00	(0.98, 1.02)	0.962
Race (non-white versus white)	1.06	(0.40, 2.84)	0.906
Education (>high school vs. ≤high school)	0.88	(0.67, 1.15)	0.339
Marital status (not partnered vs. partnered)	0.47	(0.25, 0.90)	0.022
Paying for basics (no difficulty vs. difficulty)	0.17	(0.08, 0.39)	<0.0001
Cancer stageb	1.11	(0.89, 1.77)	0.677
Chemotherapy (none vs. post treatment)	0.53	(0.30, 0.93)	0.026
Chemotherapy (current vs. post treatment)	2.01	(1.14, 3.01)	0.001
Radiation (none vs. post treatment)	1.29	(0.88, 1.88)	0.190
Radiation (current vs. post treatment)	0.87	(0.47, 1.61)	0.662
Illness intrusiveness	1.09	(1.07, 1.10)	<0.0001
Social support	0.49	(0.39, 0.62)	<0.0001

^aSymptom subgroups ordered from 1-4; subgroups 2,3, and 4, 5 and 6 respectively combined into two single groups.

^bCancer stage is treated as continuous.