Table 4.
Associations between psychological distress, control preferences, monthly treatment expenses, and the amount of information patients desire about care-related topics.
| General information | Cost information | Prognosis information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis characteristics |
Treatments′ side effects |
Treatments′ effectiveness |
Treatments′ costs to society |
Treatments′ cost to me |
Chances of cure |
Life expectancy |
|
| –0.029 (−0.19,0.14) | –0.0020 (−0.17, 0.18) | –0.058 (−0.26,0.14) | 0.045 (−0.14,0.23) | –0.054 (−0.23, 0.12) | –0.24* (−0.44, −0.045) | –0.25* (−0.46, −0.032) | |
| Control preferences | 0.039 (−0.080, 0.16) | 0.03 (−0.079, 0.13) | 0.046 (−0.16,0.072) | 0.17* (0.002, 0.33) | 0.15* (0.0046,0.30) | 0.13* (0.0018, 0.26) | 0.18* (0.034,0.32) |
| Monthly expenses | –0.024 (−0.17,0.12) | –0.030 (−0.20,0.13) | 0.026 (−0.12, 0.17) | 0.16** (0.040, 0.29) | –0.12 (−0.26, 0.026) | –0.13 (−0.37, 0.11) | –0.11 (−0.38,0.15) |
Note: Standardized beta coefficients, adjusted for patient and clinical predictors that produced significant main effects (see Table 2).
*
p < 0.05.
**
p < 0.01.