Table 2 Univariate predictors of summary physical, emotional and social dimension scores^a

From: Identification of paediatric cancer patients with poor quality of life

	Physical summary score		Emotional summary score		Social summary scores
Variable	β ±s.e. ^b	P -value	β ±s.e. ^b	P -value	β ±s.e. ^b	P -value
Child factors
Age in years	−1.74±0.26	<0.0001	−0.85±0.21	<0.0001	−0.91±0.22	<0.0001
Time since diagnosis	−0.70±0.98	0.48	0. 00±0.80	1.00	−2.53±0.83	0.003
Male	3.75±2.66	0.16	3.80±2.09	0.07	5.14±2.14	0.02
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia	13.28±2.57	<0.0001	5.83±2.08	0.005	5. 66±2.15	0.009
Relapse	−5.03±4.70	0.29	−1.73±3.78	0.65	−10.35±3.89	0.008
Prognosis of very good or excellent	10.73±3.36	0.002	10.73±2.63	<0.0001	10.10±2.70	0.0002
Radiation	−9.41±3.15	0.003	−4.02±2.51	0.11	−4.42±2.60	0.09
Surgery to remove cancer	−14.61±3.14	<0.0001	−3.84±2.55	0.13	−7.01±2.60	0.008
Stem cell transplant	−7.57±4.83	0.12	−0.83±3.84	0.83	−6.25±3.92	0.11
Intensive chemotherapy treatment	−15.06±2.79	<0.0001	−12.96±2.18	<0.0001	−7.65±2.32	0.001
Alternative treatment	−3.55±4.63	0.44	−7.90±3.72	0.03	−7.23±3.79	0.06
Other chronic condition	−9.46±3.44	0.006	−6.72±2.73	0.01	−3.27±2.81	0.25
Parent factors
Age in years	−0.66±0.19	0.0006	−0.16±0.15	0.31	−0.19±0.16	0.23
Male	3.00±3.98	0.45	7.02±3.13	0.03	2.68±3.22	0.41
Smoke	−4.67±3.45	0.18	−4.20±2.71	0.12	−4.21±2.79	0.13
University Education	4.37±2.81	0.12	1.63±2.23	0.47	4.55±2.28	0.05
Working	4. 23±2.67	0.11	4. 32±2.10	0.04	5.63±2.15	0.009
Chronic condition	−10.14±2.61	0.0001	−9.13±2.05	<0.0001	−8.68±2.11	<0.0001
Married	6.02±3.46	0.08	5. 84±2.74	0.03	7.14±2.79	0.01
Household factors
Sibling with chronic condition	−11.30±2.83	<0.0001	−4.19±2.28	0.07	−8.57±2.32	0.0002
Annual household income ⩾$60 000	2.18±2.69	0.42	−1.25±2.13	0.56	5.24±2.20	0.02
Adjusted household income	0.00±0.00	0.30	0.00±0.00	0.86	0.00±0.00	0.006
Savings ⩾$10 000	1.11±2.78	0.69	0.83±2.17	0.70	4.30±2.20	0.05

s.e.=standard error.
^aMean summary scores are presented in the Results.
^bβ-Coefficient from univariate linear regression. Positive β-coefficients meant that the predictor (or increasing values of the predictor) was associated with better quality of life, whereas negative β-coefficients suggested that the predictor (or increasing values of the predictor) was associated with worse quality of life.

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Table 2 Univariate predictors of summary physical, emotional and social dimension scores^a

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