Patients’ and partners’ health-related quality of life before and 4 months after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery

Table 7 Multiple logistic regression predicting partner’s post-operative emotion functional dimension (EFD)

Partner’s post-op emotion functional dimension (EFD) (dependent variable)							95.0% C.I
	Beta	S.E.	Wald	d	p	Lower	Upper
Partner pre-op (independent) variables
Step 1: chi square = 24.552, -2 Log Likelihood = 74.822, R = .264, Nagelkerke R ² = .372
EFD	-.122	.036	11.378	1	0.001**	.824	.950
PSFD	.049	.039	1.589	1	0.207	.973	1.134
Step 2: chi square = 13.529,-2 Log Likelihood = 60.940, R = .381, Nagelkerke R ² = .536
EFD	-.095	.045	4.508	1	0.034*	.833	.993
PSFD	.086	.047	3.381	1	0.066	.994	1.194
PCS	-.092	.033	7.808	1	0.005*	.855	.973
MCS	-.082	.042	3.900	1	0.048*	.849	.999
Constant	9.311	2.511	13.753	1	<0.001	-	-
Patient pre-op (independent) variables
Step 1: chi square = 21.665, -2 Log Likelihood = 77.708, R = .237, Nagelkerke R = .334
PCS	-.110	.045	6.075	1	0.014*	.821	.978
MCS	-.080	.027	8.679	1	0.003*	.876	.974
Step 2: chi square = 0.522, -2 Log Likelihood = 77.187, R = .242, Nagelkerke R ² = .341
PCS	-.079	.061	1.724	1	0.189	.820	1.048
MCS	-.068	.031	4.759	1	0.029*	.878	.993
Physical limitation	-.014	.023	0.387	1	0.534	.942	1.032
Angina freq/severity	-.002	.020	0.010	1	0.920	.961	1.037
Constant	5.042	1.910	6.971	1	0.008	-	-

EFD Emotion functional dimension, PSFD physical & social functional dimension, PCS physical component score, MCS mental component score, angina freq/severity angina frequency and severity, post-op post-operative * p < 0.005; ** p < 0.001.

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