Table 2.
Health Limitations Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancers and Individuals Without Cancer
| Cancer Survivors (N=410) |
NHIS Respondents Without Cancer (N=294,641) |
p-value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table | Value | N | PM*** | N | PM*** | |
| Health Insurance | (N=293,262) | |||||
| Private/Military, (additional public possible) | 263 | 66.2 | 201,324 | 72.8 | ||
| Public, no private/military | 82 | 19.5 | 40,564 | 10.8 | ||
| None | 65 | 14.3 | 51,374 | 16.4 | <0.0001 | |
| General Health | ||||||
| Health Status | (N=294,395) | |||||
| Excellent | 72 | 14.8 | 87,381 | 31.7 | ||
| Very Good | 117 | 26.1 | 94,759 | 32.5 | ||
| Good | 113 | 34.7 | 75,657 | 25.0 | ||
| Fair | 73 | 17.6 | 27,764 | 8.3 | ||
| Poor | 35 | 6.7 | 8,834 | 2.6 | <0.0001 | |
|
% Needs help with any Activity of Daily Living (ADL)** |
(N=294,603) | |||||
| 21 | 5.7 | 4,875 | 1.5 | <0.0001 | ||
|
% Needs help with any Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)** |
(N=294,566) | |||||
| 49 | 12.3 | 11,821 | 3.2 | <0.0001 | ||
|
% with any limitation in any way |
(N=294,548) | |||||
| 51 | 12.9 | 12,533 | 3.4 | <0.0001 | ||
| Bed days in past 12 mo | (N=404) | (N=289,647) | ||||
| None | 211 | 53.4 | 185,475 | 64.1 | ||
| 1–10 | 127 | 38.5 | 87,301 | 30.6 | ||
| >10 | 66 | 8.1 | 16,871 | 5.3 | 0.0002 | |
| Educational Attainment | (N=291,380) | |||||
| < High School | 45 | 13.8 | 51,591 | 15.1 | ||
| High school graduate/GED or 12th grade | 123 | 30.9 | 91,197 | 32.2 | ||
| Some College | 167 | 29.1 | 82,278 | 28.6 | ||
| College degree or higher | 75 | 26.2 | 66,314 | 24.1 | 0.1949 | |
| Lost productivity | ||||||
| % Job in past 12 months | (N=407) | (N=292,483) | ||||
| 275 | 67.8 | 208,139 | 73.9 | 0.0061 | ||
|
% Unable to work due to health problems |
(N=294,353) | |||||
| 80 | 20.9 | 22,314 | 6.3 | <0.0001 | ||
|
% Limited in amount/kind of work because of health problems |
(N=293,689) | |||||
| 115 | 30.9 | 36,330 | 10.6 | <0.0001 | ||
|
Mean work loss days (as reported) past 12 months |
||||||
| (N=274) | (N=205,055) | |||||
| PM*** | S.E. | PM*** | S.E. | |||
| 7.1 | 1.8 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0936 | ||
|
Mean work loss days past 12 months (new variable with imputed data) mean (SE) |
||||||
| (N=323) | (N=217,597) | |||||
| PM*** | S.E. | PM*** | S.E. | |||
| 40.2 | 5.0 | 15.1 | 0.2 | <0.0001 | ||
*
Wald F p-value from multivariate regression analyses including: logistic, polytomous logit, proportional odds, and linear models. Controlling for the effects of age, survey year, race/ethnicity, and gender.
**
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) include eating, bathing, dressing, getting in or out of bed or chairs, using the toilet, and getting around inside the home. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), are routine needs such as everyday household chores, doing necessary business or shopping, or getting around for other purposes.
***
PM= predicted marginal from the multivariate regression models.
NHIS=National Health Interview Survey