The effect of health literacy, self-efficacy, social support and fear of disease progression on the health-related quality of life of patients with cancer in China: a structural equation model

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the measured variables (n = 1749)

Variables^a	Mean	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis
IAA	40.6	8.4	-1.06	0.86
CIA	31.8	6.4	-0.95	0.98
HIW	15.8	3.5	-0.74	0.27
ESW	7.2	2.2	-0.39	-0.74
functioning	73.4	16.0	-0.52	0.72
symptom	27.5	15.4	0.36	0.63
globalQOL	53.2	19.9	-0.40	0.28
PA	45.9	11.8	0.30	-0.04
SD	9.2	2.6	0.25	-0.34
SDP	30.7	8.1	0.32	-0.18
OS	23.3	5.1	-0.41	-0.08
SubS	8.7	2.8	0.49	0.86
US	7.6	2.3	0.19	-0.49
PD	15.8	4.6	0.22	0.08
SF	15.0	5.1	0.41	-0.31

^aIAA Information acquisition ability, CIA Communication interaction ability, HIW Health improvement willingness, ESW Economic support willingness, QOL Quality of life, PA Positive attitude, SD Self-decision, SDP Self-decompression, OS Objective support, SubS Subjective support, US Utilization of support, PD Physical health, SF Social family

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