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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Jun 1;58(3):454–459. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.05.011

Table 4.

Meta-Analysis of Effect Sizes for the Associations between Financial Strain and Indicators of Quality of Life in Three Samples of Patients with Breast Cancer

Quality of Life Indicator Measures Studies N Standardized Mean
Difference (Cohen’s d)		 p
Depression Symptom Severity PROMIS, DASS 1, 2, 3 309 0.70 <.001
Anxiety Symptom Severity PROMIS, DASS 1, 3 189 0.51 <.001
Perceived Health SF-1 1, 2, 3 309 0.57 <.001
Physical Symptom Burden FACT-G 1, 2, 3 309 0.67 <.001

Note. PROMIS = Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [25]. DASS = Depression Anxiety Stress Scale [22]. SF-1 = first item from the Short Form Health Survey [26]. FACT-G = Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General [27]. Cohen’s d values reflect the sample-size weighted average values across samples. All analyses control for age, education level, presence/absence of metastases, and time since diagnosis.