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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Nurs. 2015 May-Jun;38(3):E51–E60. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000191

Table 2. Differences in General and Cancer-related Communication by Gender.

Male (n=5) Female (n=5) Z
Survivor Mean (SD)
 Family communication 4.3 (0.7) 3.5 (0.7) -1.70c
  Item 2: family members are good listeners 4.4 (0.5) 3.2 (0.8) -2.13d
  Item 7: honest answers 4.8 (0.4) 3.2 (0.4) -2.68e
 Cancer-related communication 21.6 (4.4) 20.4 (3.2) -0.32

Partners

 Family communication 4.5 (0.3) 3.4 (0.3) -2.61e
  Item 4: can ask each other for what they want 4.4 (0.5) 3.4 (0.5) -2.15d
  Item 5: calmly discuss problems 4.6 (0.5) 3.2 (0.4) -2.55d
  Item 6: discuss their ideas and beliefs 4.8 (0.4) 3.4 (0.5) -2.55d
  Item 8: try to understand each other's feelings 5.0 (0.0) 3.4 (0.9) -2.83e
  Item 10: express their true feelings 4.4 (0.5) 3.4 (0.5) -2.15d
 Cancer-related communication 23.0 (2.1) 20.2 (3.7) -1.38

Male survivor-female partner Female survivor-male partner Z

Survivor-Partner discordances (CCAT-PF) 17.2 (9.7) 14.8 (8.3) -0.96

Note.

a

Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance were conducted to compare outcomes by gender;

b

Numbers do not add to total sample size because of the missing values.

c

p< .1,

d

p< .05,

e

p< .01.