The prevalence of perceived stigma and self-blame and their associations with depression, emotional well-being and social well-being among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH cross-sectional study in Vietnam

Table 2 Associations of perceived stigma, behavioural self-blame, characterological self-blame with depression, emotional well-being, and social well-being^a

	Coefficient (ß)	95% confidence interval (95 CI)	p-value
Perceived stigma
Model 1: Depressive symptoms	0.1	0.1, 0.2	0.000
Model 2: Emotional well-being	-0.0 *	-0.1, 0.0	0.024
Model 3: Social well-being	0.0	-0.1, 0.0	0.098
Presence of behavioral self-blame
Model 4: Depressive symptoms	1.7	-1.0, 4.4	0.225
Model 5: Emotional well-being	-1.4	-3.1, 0.2	0.088
Model 6: Social well-being	-0.4	-1.7, 0.9	0.538
Presence of characterological self-blame
Model 7: Depressive symptoms	3.0 *	0.5, 5.5	0.020
Model 8: Emotional well-being	-1.6 *	-3.1, -0.1	0.038
Model 9: Social well-being	0.8	-0.4, 2.0	0.191

^aMultivariable linear regressions controlled for gender, age, marital status, education, religion, financial distress, awareness of disease severity, and type of cancer
^*denotes statistical significance after the Holm’s adjustment

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