Heath-related quality of life in thyroid cancer patients following radioiodine ablation

Table 3 Factors linked to the 9-month FACIT scores/dimensions: multivariate analysis (standardized beta coefficient)

		FACIT-F	FACIT-G	FACIT-F TOI	PWB	SWB	EWB	FWB	FS
Gender (0 men, 1 women)	ß	-0.164	-0.128	-0.177	-0.230	0.050	-0.171	-0.097	-0.176
	p	0.112	0.187	0.098	0.043	0.572	0.125	0.321	0.111
Age group (0 <45 y, 1 ≥ 45 y)	ß	-0.223	-0.197	-0.236	-0.179	-0.163	-0.090	-0.202	-0.248
	p	0.038	0.050	0.033	0.119	0.076	0.413	0.043	0.031
Marital status (0 single, 1 partner)	ß	0.051	0.021	0.047	-0.010	0.017	0.059	0.040	0.089
	p	0.636	0.839	0.678	0.932	0.857	0.607	0.692	0.447
Depression (0 no, 1 yes)	ß	-0.026	-0.056	0.036	0.116	-0.441	0.199	-0.118	0.003
	p	0.838	0.698	0.818	0.471	0.001	0.213	0.409	0.984
Initial therapy (0 hypo, 1 rhTSH)	ß	-0.056	-0.029	-0.064	-0.041	-0.010	0.001	0.004	-0.070
	p	0.595	0.767	0.555	0.715	0.908	0.997	0.970	0.532
Anxiety level*	ß	-0.076	-0.061	-0.079	-0.165	0.128	-0.172	-0.076	-0.076
	p	0.588	0.649	0.587	0.284	0.285	0.258	0.565	0.616
Baseline QOL**	ß	0.444	0.499	0.442	0.380	0.513	0.500	0.447	0.357
	p	0.002	<0.001	0.003	0.004	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	0.012

PWB Physical well-being, SWB Social/family well-being, EWB Emotional well-being, FWB Functional well-being, FS Fatigue
FACIT-G (PWB, SWB, EWB, and FWB subscales), FACIT-F (FACT-G, and FS subscale), FACIT-F TOI (PWB, FWB, and FS subscales)
ß: standardized beta coefficient (ß represents the change in standard deviation units in QOL score resulting from a change of one standard deviation in the different independent variables);
p: p-value
*the higher the score, the higher anxiety level
**the higher the score, the higher the QOL level
Bold values: p < 0.05

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