Table 3.

Association between health symptoms and HRQoL functioning domains through multivariable linear regression

Cells are empty when factors were not significant in univariate testing and thus not included in multivariate testing, or were excluded through backward selection in the multivariate analyses. Analyses were corrected for age at time of survey, presence of comorbid diseases, highest completed level of education at time of diagnosis, and breast reconstruction

CI confidence interval, β association of x points of health problem on HRQoL

^aIn categories, reference categories for health symptoms were patients who not reported health symptoms in this category