Profiling symptom burden and its influencing factors at discharge for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery: a cross-sectional analysis

Table 4 Multivariate linear regression analysis of factors that affected the mean score of the top 5 symptoms

Variables	Partial regression coefficient	SE	P-value
Age, years	0.003	0.014	0.809
BMI, kg/m²	− 0.006	0.034	0.856
Operative time, minutes	7.925	0.002	0.968
Sex	0.063	0.254	0.806
Male
Female
Highest level of education	− 0.003	0.197	0.987
Middle school and below
Above middle school
Annual income	− 0.626	0.287	0.030
Low annual income (< 100,000 RMB)
High annual income (≥ 100,000 RMB)
Smoking history	− 0.396	0.278	0.155
No
Yes
Drinking history	0.219	0.260	0.399
No
Yes
ASA physical status classification	0.354	0.196	0.071
I
≥ II
Charlson Comorbidity Index	0.049	0.298	0.869
0
1–5
Tumour pathological type	0.141	0.294	0.631
Adenocarcinoma
Others
Tumour pathological stage	0.348	0.233	0.137
Early stage (0–I)
Advanced stage (II–IV)
Postoperative maximum complication grade	− 0.433	0.254	0.089
< II
≥ II
Surgical approach	− 0.197	0.293	0.501
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Open surgery
Lymphadenectomy	− 0.378	0.374	0.313
Systematic lymph node dissection
Non-systematic lymph node dissection
Number of chest tube	0.515	0.209	0.014
One
Two

BMI body mass index, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists, SE standard error

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