Health-related quality of life and life satisfaction in colorectal cancer survivors: trajectories of adjustment

Table 1 Predictors of SWLS trajectory class membership (N = 1615)

Predictor	Adjusted OR (95% CI) relative to constant high			p-value ^c
Predictor	Medium decrease	Medium increase	Constant low	p-value ^c
Age (Younger^a)	1.22 (1.0, 1.5)	1.25* (1.0, 1.6)	2.01* (1.5, 2.8)	< 0.001
Education level				0.010
Less than 8 years	1.04 (0.6, 1.9)	0.37* (0.2, 0.9)	0.26 (0.1, 2.2)
8 – 12 years or College	Reference	Reference	Reference
University	0.76 (0.4, 1.4)	0.60 (0.3, 1.1)	0.42 (0.1, 1.2)
Social support (Dissatified^b)	1.44* (1.1, 1.8)	1.62* (1.3, 2.0)	1.89* (1.4, 2.5)	< 0.001
Low cancer threat appraisal	1.14* (1.1, 1.2)	1.16* (1.1, 1.2)	1.40* (1.3, 1.5)	< 0.001
Low optimism	1.11* (1.1, 1.2)	1.19* (1.1, 1.3)	1.31* (1.2, 1.4)	< 0.001

* significant at 0.05 level on the adjusted log odds of being in the class versus the Constant High class.
^a patient age is categorized into “20-49”, “50-59”, “60-69”, “70-80” (treated as ordinal in GMMs).
^b satisfaction with social support received (ordinal scale from 0 “very dissatisfied” to 5 “very satisfied”).
^c likelihood ratio test (full model versus model without the predictor under consideration).

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