Attitudes toward Cancer Diagnosis Disclosure and Resilience among Suspicious Lung Cancer Patients, Lung Cancer Patients, and Their Families

Table 4

Multivariate analysis of factors influencing family’s preference for patients being informed of their cancer diagnoses.

Variable	Event: CDD preference = yes
	Family of SLCPs group			value	Family of LCPs group
	Univariate	value	Multivariate		Univariate	value	Multivariate	value
	OR (95% CI)		OR (95% CI)		OR (95% CI)		OR (95% CI)
Age (+5 years)	1.22 (1.09–1.37)	0.001	1.15 (1.02–1.30)	0.025	1.05 (0.95–1.17)	0.341	1.15 (1.02–1.30)	0.025
Relationship to patient: (ref: other relatives)
Spouse	1.59 (0.60–4.24)	0.35			0.83 (0.21–3.25)	0.786
Child	0.67 (0.25–1.79)	0.426			0.45 (0.11–1.79)	0.257
Gender: (ref: male)
Female	0.71 (0.42–1.21)	0.209			1.44 (0.83–2.49)	0.192
Marriage status (ref: not married)
Married	1.75 (0.84–3.65)	0.136			1.31 (0.63–2.72)	0.471
Education level (ref: middle school and below)
High school and above	1.55 (0.87–2.74)	0.134			0.86 (0.48–1.54)	0.618
Residence (ref: rural)
Urban	3.15 (1.81–5.50)	0.001	2.04 (1.04–4.02)	0.039	1.48 (0.85–2.58)	0.164	1.53 (0.83–2.84)	0.175
Month income (ref: 3000–3999 and below)
4000–4999 and above	2.13 (1.24–3.65)	0.006	1.28 (0.69–2.40)	0.435	1.17 (0.67–2.04)	0.571	0.87 (0.47–1.60)	0.652
Ethnicity (ref: han)
Ethnic minority	0.70 (0.39–1.24)	0.22			1.49 (0.63–3.53)	0.363
Belief (ref: no)
Yes	0.43 (0.21–0.88)	0.02	0.72 (0.32–1.64)	0.437	0.32 (0.04–2.75)	0.302	0.38 (0.02–2.35)	0.376
Resilience (ref: combined score < median)	2.56 (1.49–4.42)	0.001	1.76 (0.96–3.21)	0.066	1.86 (1.07–3.24)	0.027	1.79 (1.04–3.12)	0.036