Dialysis-related factors affecting self-efficacy and quality of life in patients on haemodialysis: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

Table 6 Patients characteristics associated with quality of life in multiple linear regression

Variables ^a	Unstandardised coefficients (β)	S.E	Standardised coefficients (β)	P value ^b	95% confidence interval for β
Age	− 0.03	0.03	− 0.05	0.402	− 0.09 to 0.04
Education level	0.05	0.02	0.13	0.017	0.01 to 0.09
Income	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.257	− 0.03 to 0.10
Living status	− 0.15	0.08	− 0.09	0.062	− 0.30 to 0.01
Occupation	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.449	− 0.06 to 0.13
Dialysis session duration (hours)	0.03	0.04	0.05	0.356	− 0.04 to 0.11
Transplantation history	− 0.04	0.06	− 0.04	0.495	− 0.15 to 0.07
Number of co-morbid diseases	− 0.07	0.02	− 0.21	0.001	− 0.11 to − 0.03
Number of chronic medications	0.03	0.05	0.04	0.512	− 0.06 to 0.13
Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease score	0.01	0.00	0.37	< 0.001	0.01 to 0.02

^aUnivariate factors with p values < 0.05 were entered into the multiple linear regression
^bThe p values are bold where they are less than the significance level cut-off of 0.05

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