Table 3.

Correlation among SDs, hope and QOL

	QOL		Hope		SDs
Variables	r	P	r	p	R	p
Hope	0.78	< 0.001
SDs	− 0.54	< 0.001	− 0.48	< 0.001
Age	− 0.04	0.693	0.03	0.769	− 0.18	0.086
Duration (months)	0.20	0.051	0.18	0.079	− 0.09	0.375
Number of TACE treatments	0.14	0.189	0.10	0.333	0.01	0.983
Length of hospital stay (days)	− 0.59	< 0.001	− 0.39	< 0.001	0.76	< 0.001

Note: SDs = Symptom distress, TACE = Trans-hepatic arterial chemoembolization; QOL = quality of life