Table 2.
Percentages of 391 cancer patients completing all three hospital anxiety and depression scales who displayed anxiety or borderline anxiety. Adjusted P values are shown from multiple logistic regression
| Hospital anxiety and depression scale
|
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|---|---|---|---|
| At start of treatment | At 3 weeks | At 3 months | |
| Intervention groups | |||
| Personal computer information | 38 | 23 | 19 |
| General computer information | 37 | 28 | 37 |
| Booklet information | 32 | 18 | 22 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | >0.05 | 0.001 |
| Baseline characteristics | |||
| Age (years): | |||
| <60 | 48 | 33 | 35 |
| ⩾60 | 22 | 11 | 15 |
| P value of difference | 0.0006 | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Time since cancer diagnosed (months): | |||
| <4 | 35 | 20 | 23 |
| 4-12 | 37 | 26 | 29 |
| >12 | 27 | 13 | 20 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| Sex: | |||
| Female | 44 | 30 | 32 |
| Male | 20 | 9 | 14 |
| P value of difference | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.002 |
| Type of cancer: | |||
| Breast | 43 | 29 | 31 |
| Other | 25 | 13 | 18 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | >0.05 | 0.03 |
| Deprivation category: | |||
| Deprived | 37 | 30 | 30 |
| Average | 38 | 23 | 27 |
| Affluent | 28 | 16 | 21 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| Newspaper read: | |||
| Tabloid | 40 | 27 | 30 |
| Broadsheet | 29 | 16 | 18 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | 0.01 | 0.003 |
| Intervention behaviour | |||
| Information seeker*: | |||
| No | 37 | 24 | 27 |
| Yes | 35 | 21 | 26 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| User of information at home: | |||
| No | 41 | 32 | 36 |
| Yes | 34 | 19 | 23 |
| P value of difference | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
*
Defined as the top third for each group: those who spent ⩾18 minutes on the computer (total time) and those in booklet information group who chose 8 or more booklets.