Quality of life in hemodialysis diabetic patients: a multicenter cross-sectional study from Palestine

BMC Nephrology

Table 3 Multivariate associations between health-related quality of life score^a and four predictors among diabetic patients undergoing hemodialysis

Variables^{b, c}	Unstandardized Coefficients		Standardized Coefficients	t	P value^d
Variables^{b, c}	B	Std. Error	Beta
Gender
Male	Ref.				0.207
Female	-0.09	0.07	-0.12	-1.27
Education level
Under-university levels	Ref.				0.380
University level	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.88
Marital status
Single, Widow, Divorced	Ref.				0.016
Married	0.22	0.09	0.21	2.45
Occupational status
Unemployed	Ref.				0.013
Employed	0.27	0.11	0.21	2.51
Total chronic diseases
Less than three	Ref.				0.065
Three or more	-0.13	0.07	-0.15	-1.86

^ahealth-related quality of life is a five-item scale assessing five separate dimensions of health (high score meaning better quality of life)
^bUnivariate variables with p values < 0.05 were entered into the multiple linear regression
^cNominal variables were entered into analyses using dummy coding
^dThe p-values are bold where they are less than the significance level cut-off of 0.05

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