Table 3. Psychosocial characteristics of registry-recruited and web-recruited participants.
| Mean (SD) for registry-recruited sample (n = 80) | Mean (SD) for web-recruited sample (n = 160) | Unadjusted group differences | Unadjusted effect size (d) | Covariate-adjusted group differences | Covariate-adjusted effect size (d) | |
| Distressa | 4.7 (2.9) | 6.5 (1.8) | *** | .75 | *** | .63 |
| Total mood disturbanceb | 22.7 (30.7) | 43.3 (26.7) | *** | .72 | *** | .53 |
| Depressiona | 16.6 (12.6) | 25.2 (11.8) | *** | .70 | ** | .48 |
| Quality of lifeb | 74.2 (19.7) | 59.3 (16.7) | *** | .82 | ** | .51 |
| Quality of well-beingc | 66.5 (24.5) | 57.5 (21.7) | ** | .39 | ns | .11 |
| Trauma symptomsd | 20.2 (15.2) | 28.7 (14.6) | *** | .57 | * | .39 |
| Fatiguea | 7.5 (5.7) | 11.0 (5.4) | *** | .63 | * | .35 |
| Social supporte | 19.3 (2.9) | 17.2 (3.2) | *** | .69 | *** | .59 |
| Social constraintsa | 24.9 (10.6) | 34.0 (11.6) | *** | .82 | ** | .53 |
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p < .001
Superscripts indicate which covariates were used in the analysis:
a
age, gender, cancer type and restrictions due to cancer
b
age, gender, cancer type, tumor severity and restrictions due to cancer
c
tumor severity and restrictions due to cancer
d
age, education, gender, cancer type, tumor severity and restrictions due to cancer
e
age and gender