Table 4.

Prediction of SF-12 Health scores and HADS Anxiety and Depression scores from psychological variables, clinical and medical variables and additional variables (N = 170, significant beta’s p < .05 in bold)

		Regression on SF-12 scores						Regression on HADS scores
		Betas step 1	p	Betas step 2	p	Betas step 3	p	Betas step 1	p	Betas step 2	p	Betas step 3	p
Step 1	Stigma	.042	.605	.013	.845	.015	.831	− .046	.518	− .015	.832	− .031	.665
	Social support	.197	.024	.016	.821	.016	.830	− .246	.002	− .199	.009	− .184	.015
	Self-esteem	.216	.009	− .060	.416	− .058	.449	− .425	.000	− .381	.000	− .405	.000
	Sexuality Problems	− .239	.004	− .090	.197	− .091	.220	.152	.035	.077	.296	.066	.391
Step2	HADS			− .635	.000	− .633	.000			–	–	–	–
	Sleeping difficulties			− .045	.504	− .046	.511			.215	.003	.226	.002
	Side-effects			− .131	.044	− .133	.046			.078	.260	.096	.164
Step 3	Gender					.000	1.000					.070	.299
	Location					.008	.901					− .112	.100
R2		.226		.512		.521		.396		.443		.462

Bold printed statistics differ significantly (p -value < .05)

HADS hospital anxiety and depression scale, SF-12 short-form-12 health survey