Table 1. Patients' characteristics by phase of treatment at recruitment.
Treatment phase
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All (N=199) | Initial diagnosis (N=45) | Completion first treatment (N=48) | Remission (N=46) | Relapse (N=27) | Specialist palliative care (N=33) | ||||||||||||||
N | Mean | s.d. | N | Mean | s.d. | N | Mean | s.d. | N | Mean | s.d. | N | Mean | s.d. | N | Mean | s.d. | P-value | |
Age in years | 191 | 61.2 | 11.8 | 45 | 60.0 | 11.1 | 43 | 60.3 | 11.1 | 45 | 61.2 | 11.6 | 25 | 61.7 | 13.2 | 33 | 63.2 | 13.4 | 0.810 |
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||||||
Gender | |||||||||||||||||||
Male | 63 | 31.7 | 14 | 30.4 | 15 | 32.6 | 13 | 27.7 | 11 | 42.3 | 10 | 29.4 | 0.765 | ||||||
Female | 136 | 68.3 | 32 | 69.6 | 31 | 67.4 | 34 | 72.3 | 15 | 57.7 | 24 | 70.6 | |||||||
Marital status | |||||||||||||||||||
Single | 35 | 17.6 | 11 | 23.9 | 7 | 15.2 | 8 | 17.0 | 6 | 23.1 | 3 | 8.8 | |||||||
Married/cohabiting | 121 | 60.8 | 27 | 58.7 | 30 | 65.2 | 24 | 51.1 | 17 | 65.4 | 23 | 67.7 | 0.190 | ||||||
Formerly marrieda | 41 | 20.6 | 8 | 17.4 | 7 | 15.2 | 15 | 31.9 | 3 | 11.5 | 8 | 23.5 | |||||||
Household (lives with) | |||||||||||||||||||
Alone | 56 | 28.1 | 15 | 32.6 | 11 | 23.9 | 18 | 38.3 | 5 | 19.2 | 7 | 20.6 | |||||||
Spouse/partner only | 77 | 38.7 | 15 | 32.6 | 15 | 32.6 | 16 | 34.0 | 13 | 50.0 | 18 | 52.9 | 0.520 | ||||||
Anyone else | 62 | 31.2 | 15 | 32.6 | 19 | 41.3 | 12 | 25.5 | 7 | 26.9 | 9 | 26.5 | |||||||
Socio-economic class | |||||||||||||||||||
Group Ab | 111 | 55.8 | 18 | 39.1 | 29 | 63.0 | 27 | 57.5 | 15 | 57.7 | 22 | 64.7 | 0.137 | ||||||
Group Bc | 74 | 37.2 | 22 | 47.8 | 16 | 34.8 | 18 | 38.3 | 10 | 38.5 | 8 | 23.5 | |||||||
Ethnicity | |||||||||||||||||||
White British | 150 | 75.4 | 33 | 71.7 | 36 | 78.3 | 36 | 76.6 | 19 | 73.1 | 26 | 76.5 | |||||||
Any other White background | 18 | 9.1 | 4 | 8.7 | 3 | 6.5 | 6 | 12.8 | 2 | 7.7 | 3 | 8.8 | |||||||
Black/Black mixed background | 15 | 7.5 | 5 | 10.9 | 2 | 4.4 | 2 | 4.3 | 3 | 11.5 | 3 | 8.8 | 0.497 | ||||||
Asian/Asian mixed background | 6 | 3.0 | 1 | 2.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 6.4 | 2 | 7.7 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||||
Any other background | 8 | 4.0 | 3 | 6.6 | 4 | 8.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.9 |
Formerly married=separated, divorced or widowed.
Group A=Socio-economic classes I, II and III non-manual.
Group B=Socio-economic classes III manual, IV, V and housewife/househusband.