Psychosocial distress and the quality of life of cancer patients in two health facilities in Cameroon

BMC Palliative Care

Table 3 Factors Associated With Quality Of Life of Patients

S/N	Domain	*HADS (A)		*HADS (D)		*HADS (overall)		Psychosocial distress
S/N	Domain	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
Global health status
1	Global health status/*QOL	1.985	0.021	3.212	0.000	3.226	0.000	4.060	0.000
Functional scale
2	Physical functioning	1.104	0.362	2.712	0.001	1.570	0.060	3.100	0.002
3	Role functioning	1.613	0.079	2.317	0.004	1.098	0.360	2.529	0.009
4	Emotional functioning	5.511	0.000	2.079	0.011	2.702	0.000	3.000	0.002
5	Cognitive functioning	1.278	0.226	1.531	0.092	1.060	0.404	2.722	0.005
6	Social functioning	1.450	0.134	1.860	0.026	1.482	0.087	2.739	0.005
Symptom scale
7	Fatigue	1.515	0.109	1.855	0.027	2.150	0.004	4.040	0.000
8	Nausea and vomiting	1.238	0.253	1.518	0.096	1.473	0.090	1.210	0.293
9	Pain	2.162	0.011	1.671	0.055	2.884	0.000	1.294	0.243
10	Dyspnoea	0.536	0.922	2.030	0.013	1.182	0.275	2.909	0.003
11	Insomnia	1.892	0.030	1.913	0.021	2.281	0.002	2.610	0.007
12	Appetite loss	1.377	0.169	1.081	0.382	2.447	0.001	1.359	0.209
13	Constipation	1.484	0.121	0.473	0.968	1.750	0.027	0.657	0.576
14	Diarrhoea	1.092	0.373	0.663	0.846	0.878	0.639	1.158	0.327
15	Financial difficulties	2.094	0.014	1.673	0.054	1.000	0.478	1.960	0.045

^*HADS (A) Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (anxiety sub-scale), HADS (D) Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (depression sub-scale), HADS (overall) Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (overall total of both sub-scales combined), QOL Quality of Life

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