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. 2015 Apr 17;5(4):e006851. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006851

Table 2.

Proportion and mean number of missing questions for standard instruments and survey-specific questions, overall and by age at diagnosis, jurisdiction and survival phase, with ANOVA p values

Instrument/questions All respondents Age at diagnosis
Jurisdiction
Survival phase
≤59 60–69 ≥70 RoI NI Short Long Very long
Number of respondents 3348
Proportion (mean)
799
Proportion (mean)
1631
Proportion (mean)
918
Proportion (mean)
2338
Proportion (mean)
1010
Proportion (mean)
1614
Proportion (mean)
1075
Proportion (mean)
659
Proportion (mean)
Decisional Regret Scale 0.23 (1.29) 0.16 (0.87) 0.23 (1.31) 0.29 (1.62) 0.30 (1.50) 0.13 (0.79) 0.22 (1.20) 0.24 (1.33) 0.24 (1.43)
p<0.001 p<0.001 p=0.012
EORTC QLQ-C30 0.08 (1.69) 0.04 (1.04) 0.08 (1.61) 0.15 (2.41) 0.10 (1.94) 0.05 (1.13) 0.08 (1.44) 0.09 (1.77) 0.10 (2.17)
p<0.001 p<0.001 p=0.022
EuroQoL EQ-5D-5L 0.07 (0.22) 0.04 (0.12) 0.07 (0.21) 0.10 (0.33) 0.09 (0.27) 0.04 (0.11) 0.05 (0.17) 0.09 (0.25) 0.10 (0.29)
p<0.001 p<0.001 p=0.010
EORTC QLQ-PR25 0.31 (2.94) 0.24 (2.15) 0.30 (2.87) 0.41 (3.76) 0.31 (2.96) 0.32 (2.89) 0.29 (2.54) 0.32 (3.07) 0.37 (3.72)
p<0.001 p=0.713 p<0.001
DASS-21 0.17 (1.81) 0.13 (1.13) 0.15 (1.71) 0.24 (2.60) 0.20 (2.24) 0.10 (0.83) 0.15 (1.54) 0.18 (1.87) 0.20 (2.39)
p<0.001 p<0.001 p=0.004

Survey-specific questions
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)

Treatment received 93 (3%) 14 (2%) 40 (2%) 39 (4%) 72 (3%) 21 (2%) 34 (2%) 31 (3%) 28 (4%)
p=0.004 p=0.106 p=0.018
Adverse effects 87 (3%) 10 (1%) 46 (3%) 31 (3%) 63 (3%) 24 (2%) 51 (3%) 22 (2%) 14 (2%)
p=0.016 p=0.595 p=0.143

Survivorship phase: short-term, long-term and very long-term refer to survivors <5, 5–9.9 and ≥10 years postdiagnosis, respectively.

ANOVA, analysis of variance; DASS, 21-question Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale; NI, Northern Ireland; RoI, Republic of Ireland.