Table 3.
Correlates of HAPS anxiety and depression symptom severity in patients and family caregivers
| Patient | Caregiver | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anxiety | Depression | Anxiety | Depression | ||||||
| r | b | r | b | r | b | r | b | ||
| Patient (Pt) factors | |||||||||
| Sociodemographic characteristics | |||||||||
| Pt Age | −.32*** | −.22** | −.09 | −.09 | −.08 | ||||
| Pt Sex, female | .13 | .11 | −.19 | −.14 | |||||
| Financial situationa | −.31*** | −.03 | −.23** | −.09 | −.01 | .05 | |||
| Education, ≥college degree | −.05 | .15 | .07 | .16 | |||||
| Type of relationship, spousal | −.14 | .06 | .18 | −.20* | .01 | ||||
| Clinical characteristics | |||||||||
| Disease type, AML (vs. all others) | −.02 | .11 | −.03 | −.02 | |||||
| Donor Type, MUD (vs. all others) | −.05 | .08 | .15 | .13 | |||||
| Health-related characteristics | |||||||||
| Pt SF36 Physical composite | −.15 | −.37*** | −.26** | −.08 | −.14 | ||||
| Pt Brief Charlson Comorbidity Index | .08 | .11 | .09 | .05 | |||||
| Psychosocial characteristics | |||||||||
| Pt Perceived threat | .21* | .06 | .25** | .06* | .10 | .11 | |||
| Pt Perceived control | −.29** | −.12 | −.34*** | −.17 | −.08 | −.14 | |||
| Pt Relationship quality | −.09b | −.14b | .01b | −.06b | |||||
| Pt Cancer distress | .69*** | .59*** | .52*** | .34** | .11 | .02 | |||
| Pt Anxiety | .06 | . | .03 | ||||||
| Pt Depression | .15 | .16 | |||||||
| Pt General self-efficacy | −.35*** | −.14 | −.39*** | −.15 | .08 | .07 | |||
| Caregiver (Cg) factors | |||||||||
| Sociodemographic characteristics | |||||||||
| Cg Age | .01 | .10 | −.28** | −.11 | −.20* | −.08 | |||
| Cg Sex, female | −.08 | −.16 | .24* | .15 | .14 | ||||
| Financial situationa | −.05 | −.06 | .03 | −.05 | −.12 | .08 | |||
| Education, ≥college degree | .07 | .11 | .17 | .24* | |||||
| Health-related characteristics | |||||||||
| Cg SF36 Physical composite | −.06 | −.13 | .13 | −.05 | |||||
| Cg Brief Charlson Comorbidity Index | .08 | .12 | .11 | .07 | |||||
| Psychosocial characteristics | |||||||||
| Cg Perceived threat | .19* | .25* | .06 | −.04 | .07 | ||||
| Cg Perceived control | −.15 | −.11 | −.02 | −.04 | |||||
| Cg Relationship quality | .07b | .01b | −.05b | −.02b | |||||
| Cg Cancer distress | .00 | .07 | .62*** | .58*** | .49*** | .46*** | |||
| Cg Anxiety | .06 | .16 | |||||||
| Cg Depression | .03 | .16 | |||||||
| Cg General self-efficacy | .02 | −.01 | −.34*** | −.19* | −.25* | −.09 | |||
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p<.001
a
Participants endorsed Financial Situation as 1=not enough for basic requirements; 2=just enough to get along on; 3=comfortable
b
Taking type of dyad (spousal vs not) into account did not affect the significance of the correlation between relationship quality and symptoms
Abbreviations: HADS=Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; AML=Acute Myelogenous Leukemia; MUD=Matched Unrelated Donor; Patient (Pt) n=110; Caregiver (Cg) n=107