Table 2.
Relationships between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life of patients and FCs
| Characteristic | Total FACT-Leu score (Patients) | SF-36 PCS score (FCs) | SF-36 MCS score (FCs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean ± SD | Statistic | p | Mean ± SD | Statistic | p | Mean ± SD | Statistic | p | |
| Sex | −2.03 (t) | 0.044 | −0.004 (t) | 0.997 | −3.573 (t) | 0.004 | |||
| Male | 74.65 ± 16.41 | 64.67 ± 14.76 | 48.92 ± 13.86 | ||||||
| Female | 79.39 ± 16.19 | 64.68 ± 16.09 | 55.62 ± 12.40 | ||||||
| Age (years) | 2.259 (F) | 0.107 | 3.798 (F) | 0.024 | 2.587 (F) | 0.078 | |||
| < 45 | 75.38 ± 16.11 | 66.88 ± 15.49 | 54.16 ± 14.33 | ||||||
| 45–59 | 81.39 ± 16.20 | 60.52 ± 14.83 | 49.59 ± 11.54 | ||||||
| 60–74 | 76.33 ± 18.70 | 65.75 ± 13.36 | 50.72 ± 11.33 | ||||||
| Marital status | −0.793 (t) | 0.429 | 3.758 (t) | < 0.001 | 4.626 (t) | < 0.001 | |||
| Married | 77.38 ± 16.31 | 63.18 ± 15.42 | 50.93 ± 12.94 | ||||||
| Unmarried | 75.31 ± 16.81 | 75.42 ± 10.80 | 63.86 ± 11.98 | ||||||
| Educational level | 0.132 (F) | 0.876 | 9.299 (F) | 0.000 | 1.578 (F) | 0.209 | |||
| Primary school or below | 75.75 ± 12.86 | 55.96 ± 14.81 | 51.25 ± 12.47 | ||||||
| Middle or high school | 77.29 ± 18.21 | 64.85 ± 14.85 | 51.57 ± 13.16 | ||||||
| University or higher | 76.37 ± 14.38 | 70.10 ± 14.78 | 55.38 ± 14.64 | ||||||
| Religious belief | 0.039 (t) | 0.969 | 0.332 (t) | 0.740 | −0.463 (t) | 0.644 | |||
| Yes | 76.75 ± 16.12 | 64.32 ± 17.16 | 52.95 ± 13.48 | ||||||
| No | 76.85 ± 16.79 | 65.05 ± 13.51 | 52.05 ± 13.55 | ||||||
| Employment | −3.234 (t) | 0.001 | 2.722 (t) | 0.007 | 0.893 (t) | 0.373 | |||
| Employed | 65.80 ± 16.66 | 68.97 ± 14.66 | 53.76 ± 14.70 | ||||||
| Unemployed | 78.05 ± 15.99 | 64.64 ± 15.44 | 51.92 ± 12.89 | ||||||
| Type of leukemia | −0.948 (t) | 0.344 | |||||||
| AML | 77.68 ± 17.14 | ||||||||
| ALL | 75.39 ± 15.24 | ||||||||
| Treatment | −2.030 (t) | 0.044 | |||||||
| Chemotherapy | 75.66 ± 15.62 | ||||||||
| Non-chemotherapy | 81.70 ± 19.03 | ||||||||
| Undergoing initial treatment | 0.680 (t) | 0.498 | |||||||
| Yes | 77.66 ± 15.43 | ||||||||
| No | 76.06 ± 17.30 | ||||||||
| Relationship to patient | 1.126 (F) | 0.346 | 4.644 (F) | 0.001 | 4.621 (F) | 0.001 | |||
| Spouse | 78.17 ± 13.88 | 63.33 ± 15.13 | 51.66 ± 13.04 | ||||||
| Parent | 73.06 ± 18.39 | 60.61 ± 15.67 | 49.26 ± 13.61 | ||||||
| Child | 79.02 ± 19.30 | 67.99 ± 14.37 | 53.87 ± 13.75 | ||||||
| Sibling | 72.14 ± 20.68 | 74.29 ± 15.78 | 62.78 ± 8.25 | ||||||
| Other | 76.57 ± 6.58 | 81.79 ± 2.27 | 68.23 ± 1.66 | ||||||
| Understanding of the disease | 0.726 (F) | 0.458 | 1.640 (F) | 0.197 | |||||
| Incomplete | 59.50 ± 16.29 | 42.49 ± 7.42 | |||||||
| Partial | 63.73 ± 16.11 | 52.11 ± 14.77 | |||||||
| Complete | 65.82 ± 14.80 | 53.39 ± 12.29 | |||||||
ALL acute lymphoblastic leukemia, AML acute myelogenous leukemia, SD standard deviation, PCS physical component summary, MCS mental component summary, FC family caregiver, FACT-Leu Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Leukemia, SF-36 36-item Short-Form Health Survey