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Table 3 Mean and standard deviation (SD) values of SWB32 multi-item scales and G-SWB score of all participants and their correlations with age, gender, disease-group (cancer/non-cancer), Charlson Comorbidity Index, current hospitalization (hospital) and religious community. Statistically significant (= p < 0.05) correlations are marked with *. For abbreviations of SWB32 factors see Methods

From: Spiritual well-being correlates with quality of life of both cancer and non-cancer patients in palliative care - further validation of EORTC QLQ-SWB32 in Finnish

Mean (SD)

RS

RSG

EX

RG

G-SWB

Age

Gender

Disease

Charlson

Hospital

Religious community

RO 78.5 (16.8)

0.308*

0.364*

0.528*

0.187*

0.223*

0.047

0.039

0.04

0.003

-0.031

0.022

RS 64.7 (19.9)

 

0.286*

0.523*

0.134

0.390*

0.092

0.166

0.17

-0.190

-0.197

0.308*

RSG 72.2 (18.1)

  

0.455*

0.607*

0.506*

0.202*

0.287*

0.287*

-0.182

-0.373*

0.487*

EX 75.7 (18.0)

   

0.267*

0.573*

0.048

0.202*

0.202*

-0.180

-0.249

0.174

RG 67.7 (40.3)

    

0.411*

0.029

0.229*

0.229*

-0.187

-0.366*

0.393*

G-SWB 67.9 (27.2)

     

0.061

0.223*

0.223*

-0.181

-0.301*

0.327*