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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2008 Mar 6;16(11):1243–1254. doi: 10.1007/s00520-008-0420-6

Table 3.

Significant Relationships between Demographic and Clinical Variables and Symptom Distress Groups.

Symptom Distress Groups Baseline
Day 0
Day 30
(n = 74) (n = 73) (n = 67)
<25a ≥25b <25a ≥25b <25a ≥25b
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
56 (76) 18 (24) 31 (42) 42 (58) 38 (57) 29 (43)
SDS: Mean (SD) 18.4 (3.2) 29.9 (3.1) 19.7 (3.4) 31.7 (5.4) 19.7 (3.0) 31.7 (5.5)

Characteristics
Transplant type
 MC 30 (55) 3 (16) 12 (39) 22 (52) 16 (42) 14 (48)
 RIC 26 (46) 15 (83) 19 (61) 20 (48) 22 (58) 15 (52)
p-value 0.006* 0.247 0.615
Baseline Disease Status
 Remission/Stable 39 (70) 10 (55) 21 (68) 28 (66) 30 (79) 16 (55)
 Progressive 17 (30) 8 (44) 10 (32) 14 (33) 8 (21) 13 (45)
p-value 0.272 0.923 0.038*
Age: Mean ± SD 39.9 (13.5) 41.1 (14.6) 43.2 (12.1) 36.9 (13.7) 38.0 (13.7) 42.7 (13.1)
p-value 0.737 0.047* 0.167

MC Myeloablative Conditioning, RIC Reduced Intensity Conditioning, SDS Symptom Distress Score

*

p < 0.05

a

Low symptom distress

b

Moderate or severe symptom distress