Table 4. Results of univariate and multivariate multinomial logistic models in female and male cancer patients.

	Dependent variable: length of patient delay
	Short: ⩽1 day						Long: >55 days
Medium: 2–55 days	Unadjusted			Adjustedb			Unadjusted			Adjustedb
(Reference)a	RRR	95% CIc	P-value	RRR	95% CIc	P-value	RRR	95% CIc	P-value	RRR	95% CIc	P-value
Female cancer patients (N=487)
Partner avoidance	0.83	0.51–1.35	0.45	0.78	0.39–1.54	0.47	1.43	0.94–2.18	0.10	0.73	0.38–1.38	0.33
Partner support	1.22	0.83–1.79	0.32	1.16	0.68–1.98	0.57	0.54	0.37–0.80	0.002	0.62	0.36–1.07	0.09
Other avoidance	0.88	0.59–1.32	0.55	1.31	0.69–2.48	0.41	1.81	1.25–2.60	0.002	2.54	1.40–4.59	0.002
Other support	1.02	0.75–1.41	0.89	0.99	0.57–1.73	0.97	0.63	0.45–0.89	0.009	0.76	0.43–1.34	0.35
Age	1.00	0.99–1.02	0.63	1.00	0.98–1.02	0.94	0.99	0.97–1.00	0.08	1.00	0.98–1.02	0.92
Educational level
Lower secondaryd	0.59	0.38–0.93	0.02	0.71	0.32–1.55	0.39	0.61	0.38–0.96	0.03	0.79	0.36–1.74	0.56
Tertiarye	1.24	0.78–1.97	0.36	0.87	0.37–2.07	0.75	1.17	0.72–1.89	0.52	1.30	0.55–3.08	0.56
Relationship status
Single (ref)	1.00						1.00
In a relationship	0.65	0.42–1.01	0.06	Omittedf			1.59	0.94–2.69	0.08	Omittedf
Relatives with cancer
Few (ref)	1.00			1.00			1.00			1.00
Many	1.15	0.73–1.80	0.55	1.56	0.84–2.92	0.16	1.17	0.74–1.86	0.51	1.10	0.58–2.08	0.77
Disclosure of symptoms
No disclosure (ref)	1.00			1.00						1.00
Disclosure	0.69	0.38–1.26	0.23	0.68	0.23–2.03	0.49	0.35	0.20–0.62	<0.001	0.25	0.10–0.63	0.003
Male cancer patients (N=423)
Partner avoidance	0.63	0.36–1.11	0.11	0.87	0.45–1.67	0.67	0.57	0.32–1.04	0.07	0.73	0.37–1.47	0.38
Partner support	1.24	0.87–1.77	0.24	0.95	0.61–1.47	0.81	0.77	0.54–1.10	0.15	0.54	0.34–0.85	0.008
Other avoidance	0.81	0.52–1.26	0.35	0.71	0.41–1.24	0.23	0.83	0.53–1.32	0.44	0.85	0.49–1.47	0.56
Other support	1.68	1.19–2.38	0.003	1.47	0.95–2.27	0.09	1.22	0.85–1.74	0.27	1.25	0.78–2.02	0.35
Age	0.99	0.97–1.01	0.33	0.99	0.97–1.01	0.25	0.98	0.96–1.00	0.05	0.98	0.96–1.00	0.08
Educational level
Lower secondaryd	1.18	0.75–1.87	0.48	1.01	0.47–2.15	0.99	0.91	0.57–1.47	0.71	0.99	0.44–2.24	0.99
Tertiarye	0.69	0.41–1.14	0.15	0.86	0.37–2.01	0.73	1.01	0.61–1.67	0.97	1.19	0.50–2.87	0.70
Relationship status
Single (ref)	1.00						1.00
In a relationship	0.54	0.28–1.04	0.07	Omittedf			0.51	0.26–1.00	0.05	Omittedf
Relatives with cancer
Few (ref)	1.00			1.00			1.00			1.00
Many	1.14	0.71–1.85	0.58	1.20	0.67–2.16	0.55	0.82	0.49–1.36	0.44	1.18	0.63–2.19	0.61
Disclosure of symptoms
No disclosure (ref)	1.00			1.00			1.00			1.00
Disclosure	1.57	0.82–2.98	0.17	1.27	0.55–2.89	0.58	0.82	0.46–1.46	0.50	0.83	0.39–1.81	0.65

Abbreviation: RRR=relative risk ratio.

^aReference refers to the group that all other groups are compared with in the multinomial model.

^bOnly patients with a partner were included in the multivariate multinomial regression analyses (N=337 and 361 for females and males, respectively).

^c95% Confidence interval for relative risk ratio.

^dPatients with lower secondary education or no education were compared with patients with upper secondary education and patients with tertiary education combined (reference).

^ePatients with tertiary education were compared with patients with lower secondary or no education and patients with upper secondary education combined (reference).

^fThe variable ‘Relationship status’ was omitted from the multivariate multinomial regression analyses as these analyses only included patients with a partner.