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Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2014 Dec 19;23(7):2033–2043. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2513-8

Table 3.

Hierarchical linear model of fear of cancer recurrence scores for women following breast cancer surgery.

	COEFFICIENT (SE)

VARIABLE	UNCONDITIONAL MODEL	FINAL MODEL
FIXED EFFECTS
Intercept	5.670 (0.154) ^b	5.842 (0.133) ^b
Time^a (linear rate of change)	−0.436 (0.063) ^b	−0.444 (0.058) ^b
Time² (quadratic rate of change)	0.044 (0.009) ^b	0.045 (0.009) ^b
TIME INVARIANT COVARIATES
Intercept
Lives alone		−0.654 (0.270) ^c
Change in spiritual life since diagnosis		0.117 (0.036) ^c
State anxiety (prior to surgery)		0.042 (0.010) ^b
Difficulty coping as result of disease and treatment		0.256 (0.063) ^b
Distress related to initial diagnosis		0.269 (0.050) ^b
Distress (of illness) to family		0.154 (0.052) ^c
Linear
Overall physical health		−0.093 (0.029) ^c
Fear mean score (prior to surgery)		−0.098 (0.017) ^b
Quadratic
Overall physical health		0.013 (0.005) ^c
Fear mean score (prior to surgery)		0.014 (0.002) ^b
VARIANCE COMPONENTS
In intercept	7.764 ^b	3.859 ^b
In linear rate	0.537 ^b	0.307 ^b
In quadratic rate	0.008 ^c	0.005 ^b
GOODNESS-OF-FIT DEVIANCE (parameters estimated)	10389.299 (10)	10153.725 (20)
MODEL COMPARISON (X² [df])		53.959 (4) ^b

Time was coded 0 at the time of the preoperative visit.

p < 0.001,

p < 0.05