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Table 5.

Factors contributing to neuropsychiatric symptoms at convalescent phase, multiple linear regression analysis using factors scores in each construct as dependent variables

Constructs	R²	P-value	Disease	Std β	Steroids	Std β	Social	Std β	Miscellaneous	Std β
Anxiety-depression	0.33	<0.01	SARS sym	0.33	TPS	0.29	HCW	0.22	Mental illness	0.18
							N/F DSARS	–0.20
							Fam. DSARS	0.26
Cognition	0.27	<0.01	CXR-B				Student	0.34	Male	-0.16
Cognition	0.27	<0.01	SARS sym				Fam. SARS	0.24	Male	-0.16
Mania	0.23	<0.01
Positive psychological. well-being	0.16	<0.01	SaO₂	0.19	TS	–0.22
Positive psychological. well-being	0.16	<0.01	CXR-B	–0.22	TS	–0.22

SARS sym, SARS symptoms; CXR-B, bilateral involvement on CXR; SaO₂, oxygen saturation; TPS, total dose of pulse steroid; TS, total(accumulated) dose of steroid; HCW, health care worker; N/F DSARS,neighbour/friend died of SARS; Fam. DSARS, family member died of SARS; Fam. SARS, family member had SARS; Mental illness, history of mental illness.