Prevalence and its associated psychological variables of symptoms of depression and anxiety among ovarian cancer patients in China: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Hierarchical linear regression for exploring the correlates of symptoms of depression

	HADS-Depression symptoms
Variables	Step 1(β)	Step 2(β)	Step 3(β)
Block 1
Age	0.145	0.171^**	0.124^*
“Middle school” vs “Primary school”	−0.148	0.007	−0.014
“High school” vs “Primary school”	−0.206^*	0.022	0.018
“Junior college or above” vs “Primary school”	−0.221^*	−0.061	−0.065
Cancer stage “II” vs “I”	0.160	0.129^*	0.112^*
Cancer stage “III + IV” vs “I”	0.222^*	0.193^**	0.163^**
Block 2
PSS		0.710^**	0.498^**
Block 3
HHI			−0.347^**
RS			−0.032
F	2.223^**	15.399^**	18.486^**
Adjusted R²	0.085	0.539	0.615
△R²	0.155^**	0.422^**	0.074^**

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HHI Herth Hope Index, PSS Perceived Stress, RS Resilience

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