Effects of stigma, hope and social support on quality of life among Chinese patients diagnosed with oral cancer: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Hierarchical multiple regression analysis results of QoL

Variables	Step 1		Step 2		Step 3
Variables	β	P-value	β	P-value	β	P-value
Control variables
gender	0.068	0.441	0.053	0.414	0.065	0.280
marriage	−0.110	0.090	−0.128^**	0.008	−0.086	0.055
residence	− 0.176^*	0.011	− 0.020	0.707	− 0.007	0.886
Mandibulectomy	−0.128^*	0.048	− 0.049	0.312	−0.045	0.315
Distant metastasis	−0.160^**	0.007	−0.037	0.445	0.029	0.552
Edu-1	0.052	0.449	−0.076	0.144	−0.059	0.218
Edu-2	0.004	0.954	−0.071	0.183	−0.076	0.116
Stigma			−0.681^***	0.000	−0.571^***	0.000
hope					0.117^*	0.031
Social support					0.261^***	0.000
F	4.145^***		26.855^***		30.327^***
R²	0.130		0.523		0.605
Adjusted R²	0.099		0.504		0.585
R²-change	0.130		0.393		0.081

Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted to investigate the effects of influence factors on QoL
Edu-1 means “primary/middle school” vs. “college or above”, Edu-2 means “high/secondary/junior school” vs. “high or secondary school”
^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001

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