Determinants of illness-specific social support and its relation to distress in long-term melanoma survivors

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Multivariable linear regression on positive support and detrimental interactions (ISSS), n = 689

	ß ^a	95% confidence limits		p-value
Positive support (PS)		lower	upper
Marital status: separated/divorced	- 0.42	- 0.7258	- 0.0774	0.0160
Partnership	0.30	0.0524	0.5428	0.0174
Optimism (LOT-R)	0.11	0.1131	0.1990	0.0151
Pessimism (LOT-R)	- 0.19	- 0.2677	- 0.0213	< .0001
Searching external support (BC)	0.69	0.5663	0.8030	< .0001
Self-blaming/defense (BC)	- 0.23	- 0.4330	- 0.0229	0.0293
General fatigue (MFI)	- 0.04	- 0.0670	- 0.0123	0.0045
Physical fatigue (MFI)	- 0.05	- 0.0769	- 0.0172	0.0020
Detrimental interactions (DI)
Pessimism (LOT-R)	0.07	0.0136	0.1175	0.0135
Self-blaming/defensive (BC)	0.33	0.1759	0.4757	< .0001
General fatigue (MFI)	- 0.02	- 0.0390	- 0.0023	0.0286
Reduced motivation (MFI)	0.03	0.0091	0.0477	0.0041

^a Multiple Imputation for a set of covariates selected by forward and backward selection (level of selection 5%) in single imputation data
PS: R˄² = 0.3236–0.3529, Not in the equation: age, gender, educational level, married or single, social class, time since diagnosis, tumour stage, complications, illness-related quality of life, cancer-related distress, depression, anxiety, fatigue (activity, motivation, mental), positive reappraisal/active coping
DI: R˄² = 0.3236–0.3529), Not in the equation: age, gender, educational level, marital status, partnership, social class, time since diagnosis, tumour stage, complications, illness-related quality of life, cancer-related distress, depression, anxiety, fatigue (physical, activity, mental), coping, dispositional optimism

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