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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2018 Jul 12;27(2):531–538. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4340-9

Table 3.

Multivariable correlates of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) subscale scores among women undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer (n=993).

Physical wellbeing
(range: 0-28)
Functional wellbeing
(range: 0-28)
Ovarian cancer-specific
(range: 14-44)
TOI
(range: 22-100)
est. SE p est. SE p est. SE p est. SE p

Individual-level factors
Race (other v. white) 0.36 0.65 0.58 0.63 0.78 0.42 −0.02 0.77 0.98 0.97 1.91 0.61
Age group (65+ v. <65 years) 0.31 0.37 0.41 −0.20 0.45 0.65 −0.30 0.44 0.49 −0.18 1.10 0.87
Insurance type (ref: private insurance)
 Public insurance −1.00 0.49 0.04 −1.29 0.59 0.03 −1.60 0.59 0.01 −3.81 1.46 0.01
 Other −1.93 0.63 <.01 −1.98 0.76 0.01 −1.66 0.75 0.03 −5.51 1.86 <.01
Stage (IV v. III) 0.17 0.36 0.64 −0.48 0.44 0.27 −0.42 0.43 0.33 −0.61 1.07 0.57
Adverse eventsa (yes v. no) −0.34 0.32 0.28 −0.57 0.39 0.14 −0.52 0.38 0.17 −1.33 0.94 0.15
Contextual factors
Median household income Overall p 0.91 Overall p 0.45 Overall p 0.14 Overall p 0.35
 1 (lowest income) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref)
 2 0.14 0.48 0.76 0.81 0.58 0.16 1.04 0.58 0.07 2.03 1.43 0.16
 3 −0.05 0.57 0.93 0.09 0.68 0.90 −0.10 0.68 0.88 −0.05 1.68 0.98
 4 (highest income) 0.27 0.65 0.68 0.27 0.78 0.73 0.34 0.80 0.67 0.96 1.94 0.62
Adults with a high school degree or higher Overall p 0.33 Overall p 0.26 Overall p 0.06 Overall p 0.12
 1 (lowest education) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref)
 2 0.63 0.49 0.20 0.66 0.60 0.27 0.34 0.59 0.56 1.60 1.46 0.27
 3 0.04 0.57 0.94 0.16 0.69 0.82 −0.17 0.69 0.81 −0.07 1.69 0.97
 4 (highest education) 0.67 0.65 0.30 1.14 0.78 0.15 1.35 0.78 0.08 3.05 1.92 0.11
Residents who are non-white race Overall p 0.40 Overall p 0.82 Overall p 0.50 Overall p 0.73
 1 (lowest non-white %) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref)
 2 0.30 0.45 0.50 0.27 0.54 0.62 0.04 0.54 0.94 0.59 1.33 0.66
 3 −0.35 0.46 0.44 0.28 0.55 0.60 −0.69 0.55 0.21 −0.45 1.35 0.58
 4 (highest non-white %) 0.32 0.50 0.52 0.58 0.60 0.34 −0.37 0.61 0.55 0.51 1.49 0.73
Travel distance (quartiles) Overall p 0.23 Overall p 0.55 Overall p 0.31 Overall p 0.62
 1 (least distance) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref)
 2 −0.92 0.45 0.04 0.00 0.55 1.00 −0.81 0.54 0.13 −1.75 1.34 0.19
 3 −0.68 0.47 0.14 0.62 0.56 0.27 −0.55 0.56 0.32 −0.65 1.38 0.64
 4 (most distance) −0.51 0.47 0.28 −0.10 0.57 0.87 0.12 0.57 0.83 −0.54 1.40 0.70
a

Grades 3, 4, or 5, excluding hematological events.

Note. Each column represents one model. Models account for clustering by medical institution and region of the country. Models control for baseline levels of the respective HRQOL measure. Overall p-values reflect statistical significance of the joint associations of the four levels of the respective contextual factor. TOI=trial outcomes index.