Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics on Outcome Measures for Women Completing Both Baseline and Three-month Follow-up Assessments (N = 98)
| Usual Care Group (N = 43) | Workbook-Journal Group (N = 55) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure | Baseline, n (±SD) | Follow-up, n (±SD) | Baseline, n (±SD) | Follow-up, n (±SD) |
| Primary outcomes | ||||
| Posttraumatic stress checklist (17–85)* | 25.4 (8.7) | 26.6 (10.6) | 28.5 (9.5) | 27.9 (10.1) |
| Profile of mood states (TMDS) (−32–200) | 18.4 (32.8) | 19.4 (37.6) | 24.5 (32.3) | 22.6 (33.2) |
| Secondary outcomes | ||||
| COPE: behavioral disengagement (4–16) | 4.8 (1.2) | 4.8 (1.6) | 5.4 (2.0) | 4.9 (1.4) |
| COPE: mental disengagement (4–16) | 7.4 (2.4) | 7.4 (2.7) | 8.2 (2.5) | 7.6 (2.6) |
| COPE: emotional venting (4–16) | 7.3 (1.8) | 7.6 (2.8) | 8.0 (2.5) | 7.6 (2.3) |
| Mini MAC†: fighting spirit (4–16) | 13.0 (1.7) | 12.3 (1.9) | 12.4 (2.3) | 12.0 (2.3) |
| Mini MAC: anxious preoccupation (8–32) | 17.3 (4.6) | 17.1 (4.3) | 17.9 (5.3) | 16.9 (4.7) |
| Mini MAC: helplessness/hopelessness (8–32) | 10.3 (2.6) | 11.1 (3.8) | 10.3 (2.9) | 10.8 (3.5) |
| Mini MAC: Fatalism (5–20) | 15.1 (2.8) | 15.3 (3.1) | 15.4 (2.7) | 15.3 (2.6) |
| Mini MAC: denial/avoidance (4–16) | 8.8 (2.4) | 8.5 (2.3) | 9.0 (2.5) | 9.3 (2.5) |
*
Range of possible scores on each measure.
†
Mini MAC, The Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale, short version.
Note: no statistically significant difference was found on any of these measures at baseline between the mean scores of participants in the Usual Care group and those in the Workbook-Journal group, using t tests for independent groups.
COPE, Coping Operations Preference Enquiry; TMDS, total mood disturbance score.