Table 2.
Baseline data for intervention and control groups
| Questionnaire |
Intervention group
|
Control group
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No of patients | Median (range) | No of patients | Median (range) | ||
| Visual analogue scale: | |||||
| Distress caused by breathlessness | 47 | 6 (0-10) | 49 | 5 (0-10) | |
| Breathlessness at worst | 47 | 7.5 (0-10) | 49 | 7.9 (0-10) | |
| Breathlessness at best | 47 | 4 (0-9.1) | 49 | 3.5 (0-8.9) | |
| WHO performance status | 49 | 2 (0-3) | 51 | 1 (0-3) | |
| Hospital anxiety and depression scale: | |||||
| Anxiety | 48 | 7 (0-17) | 49 | 6 (0-17) | |
| Depression | 48 | 6 (0-16) | 49 | 5 (2-14) | |
| Rotterdam symptom checklist: | |||||
| Psychological symptoms | 48 | 14 (7-27) | 49 | 14 (7-26) | |
| Physical symptoms | 48 | 50 (34-77) | 49 | 49 (30-77) | |
| Activity (total items 38-44) | 45 | 12 (7-26) | 49 | 12 (7-27) | |
| Activity (subitems R41, R43, R44) | 45 | 6 (3-12) | 49 | 5 (3-12) | |
| Quality of life | 45 | 3 (1-6) | 49 | 3 (1-6) | |
Scores of patients who died were not included in this analysis. In several cases data were missing because patients did not complete individual questions on the questionnaires.