Table 3 Summary of the significant predictors for anxiety in patients with lung cancer from the univariate linear regression model (n = 213)

Characteristics

 Gender

-0.143

-0.281, -0.009

0.037

0.021

 Age (year-old)

-0.146

-0.284, -0.012

0.033

0.021

 Education

0.182

0.050, 0.326

0.01

0.031

 Psychiatric history

0.222

0.09, 0.354

0.001

0.049

 Diabetes

-0.138

-0.276, -0.004

0.037

0.014

Psychological measurements

 Family support

-0.273

-0.401, -0.141

< 0.001

0.074

 Quality of life (EQ-VAS)

-0.263

-0.404, -0.136

< 0.001

0.069

 Cognitive (FACT-Cog total score)

-0.295

-0.419, -0.164

< 0.001

0.087

  Perceived cognitive impairments

-0.345

-0.456, -0.21

< 0.001

0.119

  Comments from others

-0.146

-0.298, -0.012

0.033

0.021

  Impact on quality of life

-0.304

-0.469, -0.189

< 0.001

0.092

 Depression (PHQ-9)

0.561

0.439, 0.659

< 0.001

0.314

 PTSS (SPAN)

0.526

0.39, 0.61

< 0.001

0.276

 CRF (BFI)

0.437

0.315, 0.559

< 0.001

0.191

Endocrine assessment

 DHEA

0.286

0.099, 0.462

0.003

0.082

 DHEA-S

0.239

0.05, 0.418

0.013

0.057