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Table 4 Association between physical symptoms, health self-efficacy, and suicidal ideation (N = 544)

From: A cross-sectional study on associations of physical symptoms, health self-efficacy, and suicidal ideation among Chinese hospitalized cancer patients

Physical symptoms and self-efficacy

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

aOR

95CI

p

aOR

95CI

p

aOR

95%CI

p

High-level of health SE (score ≥ 50)

 Pain

0.68

0.29

1.56

0.358

0.62

0.26

1.48

0.279

0.60

0.24

1.45

0.252

 Shortness of breath

1.29

0.48

3.49

0.617

1.41

0.51

3.91

0.508

1.39

0.50

3.88

0.533

 Insomnia

2.04

0.91

4.58

0.083

2.01

0.87

4.64

0.102

1.87

0.79

4.44

0.063

 Weakness

0.78

0.34

1.81

0.563

0.83

0.35

2.00

0.679

0.82

0.34

1.98

0.661

 Nausea

0.53

0.06

4.75

0.572

0.37

0.04

3.49

0.382

0.73

0.03

3.29

0.344

 Lack of appetite

2.35

0.99

5.59

0.052

2.47

1.01

6.04

0.047

2.44

0.99

6.00

0.052

Interaction between physial symptoms and health SEa

 Health SE x Pain

3.21

1.20

8.59

0.02

3.03

1.12

8.15

0.028

2.77

0.99

7.74

0.053

 Health SE x Shortness of breath

1.73

0.52

5.77

0.372

1.79

0.54

5.97

0.346

1.82

0.52

6.42

0.351

 Health SE x Insomnia

0.95

0.37

2.44

0.906

0.98

0.38

2.55

0.968

1.05

0.39

2.81

0.931

 Health SE x Weakness

1.60

0.59

4.29

0.355

1.59

0.59

4.30

0.36

1.52

0.54

4.23

0.427

 Health SE x Nausea

5.84

0.57

59.61

0.137

6.02

0.60

60.74

0.128

6.24

0.53

73.16

0.145

 Health SE x Lack of appetite

1.03

0.37

2.89

0.959

1.07

0.38

3.05

0.895

1.03

0.35

3.01

0.964

  1. SE self-efficacy
  2. Bold face p < 0.05
  3. aOR (95CI) Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)
  4. Model 1: Adjusted for sex, age, marital status, education attainment, employment and all the other physical sym ptoms
  5. Model 2: Additionally adjusted for clinical variables: metastasis, stage at diagnosis
  6. Model 3: Additionally adjusted for diagnosed depression
  7. aThe interaction between a physical symptom and health self-efficacy (high /low) was tes ted indivi dually