Parental stress when caring for a child with cancer in Jordan: a cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Cancer families only - Parental stress adjusting for spousal stress, family characteristics and cancer-related predictors

	Mothers			Fathers
	(adjusted R² = 0.64, p < 0.001)			(adjusted R² = 0.64, p < 0.001)
	β	t	p	β	t	p
Constant	15.326	10.507	<0.001	2.377	1.043	0.298
Spousal stress	0.700	19.617	<0.001	0.781	19.516	<0.001
Father’s age			ns so removed			ns so removed
Mother’s age			ns so removed	−0.218	−4.348	<0.001
Father’s employment	−2.305	−2.413	0.016	3.781	3.692	<0.001
Mother’s employment			ns so removed			ns so removed
Distance from home to hospital	−0.10	−2.498	0.013	0.010	2.421	0.016
Time since diagnosis	−0.031	−2.499	0.013			ns so removed
Age of ill child			ns so removed			ns so removed
Sex of ill child			ns so removed			ns so removed
Number of children	−0.640	−2.987	0.003	0.656	2.649	0.009
Own perception of family finances
Comfortable vs varies			ns so removed			ns so removed
Comfortable vs tight			ns so removed			ns so removed
Type of cancer
Lymphoma vs leukaemia			ns so removed			ns so removed
Lymphoma vs CNS tumour			ns so removed			ns so removed
Lymphoma vs other ca			ns so removed			ns so removed

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