Table 1.

Variables identified from exploratory analyses as potential predictors of fear of cancer recurrence, based on t-values ≥2.00, indicated by filled boxes (■) for women prior to and following breast cancer surgery.

VARIABLES	INTERCEPT	LINEAR	QUADRATIC
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
Age	■
Education
Ethnicity
Living alone	■
Married/partnered	■
Employed
Self-administered Comorbidity Questionnaire score
CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Karnofsky Performance Status score
Post-menopausal status	■
Stage of disease	■	■	■
Type of surgery
Reconstruction to breast at time of surgery
Sentinel node biopsy
Axillary lymph node dissection	■
Received neoadjuvant therapy
Time since diagnosis
SYMPTOMS
Trait anxiety	■
State anxiety	■
Depressive symptoms	■
Hot flash occurrence
Hot flash severity
Hot flash distress
Current average daily pain	■
PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT CHARACTERISTICS
Overall physical health	■	■	■
Overall quality of life	■	■	■
Happiness	■
In control of things in life	■
Life satisfaction	■
Feelings of usefulness	■
Sufficient support from others	■
Importance of religious participation
Importance of other spiritual activities
Change in spiritual life	■
Positive changes due to illness
Purpose/mission for life
Hopefulness	■
Difficulty coping as a result of disease and treatment	■
Distress related to initial diagnosis	■
Distress (of illness) to family	■
Interference with personal relationships	■	■	■
Isolation caused by illness or treatment	■