Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviations for Caregiver Depressive Symptomatology, Mastery, Symptom Assistance, Social Functioning, and Patient Depressive Symptomatology, Symptom Severity, Physical Functioning, and Social Functioning, plus Patient Chemotherapy Status, by Group and by Time

	Experimental Group						Control Group
	Baseline		Time 2		Time 3		Baseline		Time 2		Time 3
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Caregiver
Depressive symptomatologya	10.8	9.2	9.7	9.7	7.7	9.1	11.3	10.2	7.4	8.4	8.1	10.1
Masteryb	26.8	4.8	27.0	4.8	28.4	4.1	26.6	4.0	27.6	4.5	27.9	4.5
Symptom assistance	3.4	2.7	2.7	2.4	1.3	1.7	3.6	2.5	2.4	2.5	1.5	1.8
Social functioningc	81.4	21.9	82.0	23.4	89.4	17.6	78.3	23.9	86.2	22.3	84.7	24.0
Patient
Depressive symptomatologya	12.2	9.0	10.6	8.9	6.6	7.7	13.6	9.0	12.7	9.2	9.9	9.2
Symptom severityd	29.0	21.7	24.5	16.6	15.6	13.6	27.0	17.2	29.4	18.3	20.6	17.3
Physical functioningc	65.8	28.6	66.9	24.9	77.2	22.9	63.2	30.0	62.0	28.0	67.0	30.2
Social functioningc	57.0	28.3	64.9	29.8	80.0	26.8	57.2	30.0	59.5	30.9	69.8	30.4
Chemotherapy status	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Yes	118	100.0	83	70.9	57	48.7	119	100.0	92	78.0	57	48.3
No	0	0.0	34	29.1	60	51.3	0	0.0	26	22.0	61	51.7

^aScale 0–60.

^bScale 7–35.

^cScale 0–100.

^dScale 0–150.