Table 5. Reported details about discussions with medical oncologists about fertility related issues.
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Item | Responses | N | % | N | % | χ2 | P-value |
Thoroughness of fertility-related discussions with oncologista | Not at all | 4 | 6.2 | 1 | 2.3 | 1.50 | 0.47 |
Briefly | 18 | 27.7 | 19 | 43.2 | |||
Moderately | 22 | 33.8 | 12 | 27.3 | |||
Quite a bit | 13 | 20.0 | 9 | 20.5 | |||
Extensively | 8 | 12.3 | 3 | 6.8 | |||
Who was the discussion initiated by?b | Patient | 25 | 38.5 | 16 | 37.2 | <0.001 | 1.00 |
Clinician | 36 | 55.4 | 23 | 53.5 | |||
Not discussed | 4 | 6.2 | 4 | 9.3 | |||
Extent to which discussion was prompted by educational materialsa | Not at all | 28 | 43.1 | 12 | 26.7 | 1.28 | 0.53 |
A little bit | 12 | 18.5 | 11 | 24.4 | |||
Moderately | 16 | 24.6 | 15 | 33.3 | |||
Quite a bit | 7 | 10.8 | 4 | 8.9 | |||
Very much | 2 | 3.1 | 3 | 6.7 |
Due to small cell sizes, for χ2 analyses responses were grouped into ‘not at all and briefly’, ‘moderately’, and ‘quite a bit and extensively’.
χ2 analyses excluded those in which fertility was not discussed.