Assessing the current situation and the influencing factors affecting perceived stigma among older patients after leukemia diagnosis

Table 6 Multivariate linear regression analysis

Variable	Group	β	SE	β’	t	P value
Constant		55.607	5.278	——	10.535	< 0.05
Age (a)		1.442	0.494	0.175	2.918	0.004
Education level	Junior high school and below	0.604	0.632	0.066	0.955	0.342
	High school or technical secondary school	0.227	0.572	0.027	0.396	0.693
Smoking		1.479	0.533	0.174	2.775	0.007
Average monthly family income (CNY)	< 3000	0.938	0.654	0.099	1.433	0.155
	3000-5000	0.531	0.565	0.064	0.940	0.349
Pension		-0.160	0.514	-0.02	-0.311	0.757
Tendency to conceal illness		0.885	0.514	0.107	1.721	0.088
Social support		-0.670	0.097	-0.472	-6.873	< 0.05
Anxiety		0.079	0.034	0.162	2.351	0.021
Depression		0.093	0.043	0.137	2.192	0.031

R = 0.802, R² = 0.644, △R² = 0.607, F = 17.733, P < 0.05.