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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 6.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2018 Oct 6;124(18):3776–3783. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31639

TABLE 3.

Factors associated with reports of fatigue and fatigue distress (multivariate models)

OR 95%CI p*
Fatigue
 Age 1.06 1.0-1.13 0.04
 Hemoglobin 0.79 0.69-0.91 0.001
 High distress symptoms**
  Anorexia 3.37 1.96-5.79 <0.001
  Nausea 3.29 1.97-5.5 <0.001
  Difficulty sleeping 2.93 1.70-5.03 <0.001
  Sadness 1.96 1.06-3.64 0.03
  Irritability 1.96 1.10-3.50 0.02
Fatigue Distress**
 High distress symptoms*
  Nausea 5.01 1.99-12.57 <0.001
  Cough 4.25 1.41-12.81 .01
  Pain 2.3 1.13-4.70 .02
  Worry 2.52 0.89-7.11 .08
*

Adjusted for intervention arm and respondent clustering (patient level clustering)

**

Symptom distress scores: High distress defined as a score ≥44 (PQ-MSAS 7-12), and ≥33 (PQ-MSAS-13-18, PQ-MSAS-proxy-full).

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval