Psychological impact of chronic hepatitis C: Comparison with other stressful life events and chronic diseases

Table 3 Factors associated with diagnosis-related stress in multivariate analysis in the 185 patients

	Diagnosis-related stress(100mm VAS score)2
	β1	P
Gender : (male: 1, female: 2)	0.02	0.76
Routes of transmission: (drug user = 1; other = 2, blood transfusion = 3)	0.17	<0.01
Educational level: (< high school:1, ≥ high school:2)	-0.03	0.58
Anxiety (STAI-Y score)	0.30	<0.001
Perceived disease severity (100mm VAS score )	0.43	<0.001

¹regression coefficient.

²Regression model: R = 0.60, R² = 0.36, adjusted R² = 0.35, F(5, 171) = 19.65, < 0.001.