Table 1.
Patients’ pre-treatment characteristics by group.
| Pre-treatment characteristics | All participants (N=175) |
Pilot study (N=41) |
Benchmark study (N=134) |
Significance (X 2 or t-test) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Age | p=.328 | |||
| Mean (SD) | 32.99 (10.64) | 31.56 (10.99) | 33.43 (10.5) | |
| Gender | p=.060 | |||
| Women | 131 (74.9) | 26 (63.4) | 105 (78.4) | |
| Men | 41 (23.4) | 13 (31.7) | 28 (20.9) | |
| Others (Non-binary & transgender) | 3(1.7) | 2 (4.9) | 1 (0.7) | |
| Education | p=.308 | |||
| High school diploma or less | 48 (27.4) | 15 (36.6) | 33 (24.6) | |
| Post high school certificate/diploma | 72 (41.1) | 14 (34.1) | 58 (43.3) | |
| University education | 55 (31.4) | 12(29.3) | 43(32.1) | |
| Employment status | p=.532 | |||
| Employed | 77 (44.0) | 22 (53.7) | 55 (41.0) | |
| Unemployed | 19 (10.9) | 4 (9.8) | 15 (11.2) | |
| Disability | 23 (13.1) | 5 (12.2) | 18 (13.4) | |
| Others (e.g., homemaker, student, retired) | 56 (32.0) | 10 (24.4) | 46 (34.3) | |
| Marital status | p=.557 | |||
| Single, never married, dating | 74 (42.3) | 20 (48.8) | 54 (40.3) | |
| Married, common law, living with a partner | 88 (50.3) | 19 (46.3) | 69 (51.5) | |
| Separated, divorced, widowed | 13 (7.4) | 2 (4.9) | 11 (8.2) | |
| Ethnicity | p=.607 | |||
| Asian (East, West & South) | 47 (26.9) | 13 (31.7) | 34 (25.4) | |
| Black | 13 (7.4) | 3 (7.3) | 10 (7.5) | |
| Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) | 93 (53.1) | 22 (53.7 | 71 (53.0) | |
| Latin American | 7 (4.0) | 0(0.0) | 7 (5.2) | |
| Others | 15 (8.6) | 3 (7.3) | 12 (9.0) | |
| Location | p=.879 | |||
| Small rural location | 42 (24.0) | 10 (24.4) | 32 (23.9) | |
| Small to medium city | 21 (12.0) | 4 (9.8) | 17 (12.7) | |
| Large city | 112 (64.0) | 27 (65.9) | 85 (63.4) | |
| Mental health characteristics | ||||
| Depression; Mean (SD) | 16.26 (5.19) | 16.59 (4.25) | 16.16 (5.46) | p=.606 |
| Anxiety; Mean (SD) | 15.07 (4.15) | 15.41 (4.29) | 14.97 (4.12) | p=.550 |