Can a single question about family members’ sense of security during palliative care predict their well-being during bereavement? A longitudinal study during ongoing care and one year after the patient’s death

Table 3 Final model in the stepwise model-building process

Varible domain	Variable	Wald values^a for partial regression coefficients in the final best subset	Relationship^b
Sense of security with care	Mastery subscale (SEC-R; 1 [never] - 6 [always])	48.44	+
Stress and coping	Nervousness and stress (from PSS; 1 [never] - 5 [very often])	18.84	–
Stress and coping	Self-efficacy (from GSE; 1 [fully disagree] - 4 [fully agree])	13.32	+
Patient characteristics	Gynecological cancer	9.46	–
Health-related quality of life	Quality of life (from WHO QOL 100; 1 (very bad) - 5 (very good))	3.40	+

A model was developed with the family members’ sense of security during ongoing palliative care as the dependent variable, and the variables in the eight domains as independent variables
^aWald = 4 is approximately equivalent to P = 0.05; Wald = 6 is approximately equivalent to P = 0.01
^b“+” means a positive relationship between response and explanatory variables; “-” indicates a negative relationship

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