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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2009 Jan;18(1):14–22. doi: 10.1002/pon.1368

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Medical Oncology (n=155) Radiation Oncology (n=69) HSCT (n=118) Total (N=342)
Age:
Mean (SD)
Median (range)

58.6 (12.5)
59 (20-86)

53.7 (14.7)
54 (18-83)

49.0 (13.0)
51 (19-75)

54.3 (13.8)
55 (18-86)
Gender:
Male, n (%)

80 (51.6%)

33 (47.8%)

72 (61.0%)

185 (54.1%)
Marital Status:
Married or Partnered, n (%)
Missing

105 (67.7%)
1 (0.6%)

53 (76.8%)
1 (1.4%)

76 (64.4%)
2 (1.7%)

234 (68.4%)
4 (1.2%)
Race:
White
Asian
Pacific Islander
Black
American Indian
Multiple Races
Missing

140 (90.3%)
5 (3.2%)
0 (0.0%)
6 (3.9%)
2 (1.3%)
0 (0.0%)
2 (1.3%)

63 (91.3%)
5 (7.2%)
0 (0.0%)
0 (0.0%)
1 (1.4%)
0 (0.0%)
0 (0.0%)

105 (89.0%)
2 (1.7%)
0 (0.0%)
1 (0.8%)
3 (2.5%)
7 (5.9%)
0 (0.0%)

308 (90.1%)
12 (3.5%)
0 (0.0%)
7 (2.0%)
6 (1.8%)
11 (2.0%)
2 (0.6%)
Ethnicity:
Hispanic/Latino, n (%)
Missing

3 (1.9%)
5 (3.2%)

2 (2.9%)
4 (5.8%)

2 (1.7%)
3 (2.5%)

7 (2.0%)
12 (3.5%)
Education:
Post-secondary education, n (%)
Missing

106 (68.4%)
3 (1.9%)

47 (68.1%)
0 (0.0%)

88 (74.6%)
1 (0.8%)

241 (70.5%)
4 (1.2%)
Annual Income:
$18,000 or less
$18,001-35,000
$35,001-55,000
$55,001 or more
Missing

19 (12.3%)
23 (14.8%)
19 (12.3%)
80 (51.6%)
14 (9.0%)

9 (13.0%)
3 (4.3%)
7 (10.1%)
44 (63.8%)
6 (8.7%)

12 (10.2%)
20 (16.9%)
56 (47.5%)
10 (8.5%)

40 (11.7%)
46 (13.5%)
46 (13.5%)
180 (52.6%)
30 (8.8%)
Work Status:
Working
Not working
Retired
Missing

55 (35.5%)
33 (21.3%)
67 (43.2%)
0 (0.0%)

35 (50.7%)
18 (26.1%)
16 (23.2%)
0 (0.0%)

16 (13.6%)
74 (62.7%)
27 (22.9%)
1 (0.8%)

106 (31.0%)
125 (36.5%)
110 (32.2%)
1 (0.3%)
Home Computer Experience
Never or rarely
Sometimes
Often or very often
Missing

29 (18.7%)
26 (16.8%)
99 (63.9%)
1 (0.3%)

13 (18.8%)
6 (8.7%)
50 (72.5%)
0 (0.0%)

15 (12.7%)
17 (14.4%)
85 (72.0%)
1 (0.8%)

57 (16.7%)
49 (14.3%)
234 (68.4%)
2 (0.6%)
Work Computer Experience
Never or rarely
Sometimes
Often or very often
Missing

35 (22.6%)
15 (9.7%)
101 (65.2%)
4 (2.6%)

13 (18.8%)
3 (4.3%)
44 (63.8%)
9 (13.0%)

18 (15.3%)
10 (8.5%)
78 (66.1%)
12 (10.2%)

66 (19.3%)
28 (9.9%)
223 (66.7%)
25 (7.3%)
Cancer Diagnoses:
Most common diagnoses, n (%)

Prostate: 25 (16.1%)
Lung: 23 (14.8%)
Colorectal: 19 (12.2%)
Lymphoma: 13 (8.4%)
Ovarian: 8 (5.2%)
Other: 67 (43.2%)

Head and Neck: 18 (26.1%)
Breast: 16 (23.2%)
Prostate: 6 (8.7%)
Skin: 5 (7.2%)
Lung: 3 (4.4%)
Other: 21 (30.4%)

Leukemia: 56 (47.5%)
Lymphoma: 38 (32.2%)
Myeloma: 22 (18.6%)
Myelodysplasia: 1 (0.8%)
Testicular: 1 (0.8%)
Other - 0 (0.0%)

Leukemia: 59 (17.2%)
Lymphoma: 54 (15.8%)
Prostate: 31 (9.1%)
Lung: 26 (7.6%)
Myeloma: 26 (7.6%)
Other*: 146 (42.7%)
Number of days between T1 & T2
44.9 (33.0)

51.6 (33.7)

51.7 (18.9)

48.6 (29.2)
*

Other diagnoses include: Head and Neck, 23 (6.7%); Colorectal, 20 (5.8%); Breast, 17 (5.0%); Cervical, 9 (2.6%); Pancreatic, 9 (2.6%); Skin, 9 (2.6%); Other, 8 (2.3%); Ovarian, 8 (2.3%); Uterine, 8 (2.3%); Esophageal, 7 (2.0%); Liver, 7 (2.0%); Endometrial, 6 (1.8%); Bladder, 3 (0.9%); Testicular, 3 (0.9%); Sarcoma, 2 (0.6%); Vaginal, 2 (0.6%); Brain, 1 (0.3%); Myelodysplasia, 1 (0.3%); Renal Cell, 1 (0.3%); Thymus, 1 (0.3%); Vulvar, 1 (0.3%).