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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 12.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2024 Jan 22;32(2):123. doi: 10.1007/s00520-024-08307-7

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Variable N (%) or M (SD)
Content and wireframe review
Iterative pre-pilot
DFCI (N = 14) SCC (N = 14) SCC (N = 7) DFCI (N = 8)
Female 8 (57%) 7 (50%) 4 (57%) 5 (63%)
Age (years) 54.3 (9.7) 51.6 (12.4) 46.0 (8.9) 52.0 (9.6)
Race/ethnicity
 American Indian/Alaska Native 1 (7%)
 Black/African American 1 (7%) 1 (13%)
 White 14 (100%) 12 (86%) 7 (100%) 7 (88%)
 Hispanic 2 (29%)
Current/historical opioid use
 Short-acting 13 (93%) 14 (100%) 7 (100%) 8 (100%)
 Long-acting 8 (57%) 8 (57%) 4 (57%) 6 (75%)
Cancer type*
 Head and neck 3 (21%) 2 (14%) 2 (29%) 1 (13%)
 Breast 2 (14%) 1 (7%) 2 (25%)
 Upper gastrointestinal 2 (25%)
 Colorectal 3 (21%) 2 (14%) 1 (14%)
 Lung 3 (21%) 1 (7%)
 Hemopoietic 2 (14%) 1 (14%) 1 (13%)
 Kidney 2 (14%) 1 (7%)
 Prostate 1 (7%) 1 (13%)
 Neuroendocrine 1 (7%)
 Pancreatic 1 (7%) 1 (14%)
 Cervical 1 (7%) 1 (14%)
 Ovarian 1 (7%) 1 (14%)
 Polycythemia vera 1 (7%)
 Other 1 (7%) 1 (7%) 1 (13%)
 Received a study phone 5 (71%) 4 (50%)
 Rural address 0 3 (21%) 2 (29%) 0

Rurality was identified using zip code analysis of RUCA codes [58]. Some participants were diagnosed with multiple primary cancer types. Samples were recruited from the Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC) in Oklahoma City, OK and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, MA