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Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Educ. 2014 Dec;29(4):739–745. doi: 10.1007/s13187-014-0649-3

Table 2.

Psychosocial and disease-specific symptoms stratified by current smoking status

	Current smokers (mean (SD))	Non-smokers (mean (SD))	p value
Psychological distress	10.6 (9.8)	5.8 (8.4)	0.03
(Brief Symptom Index) Traumatic stress	23.1 (20.0)	14.8 (15.4)	0.05
(Impact of Events Scale) Fear of recurrence	62.7 (18.3)	51.3 (18.9)	0.02
(CaPSURE™) Social constraint	28.1 (11.0)	21.2 (7.2)	0.01
(Lepore) Social support	30.6 (9.1)	31.9 (7.1)	0.67
(REACH) Illness intrusiveness	22.6 (16.2)	16.1 (16.0)	0.06
Urinary symptoms	1.9 (0.6)	1.7 (0.7)	0.12
(EORTC BLS-24) Impact of repeated treatments	1.7 (0.8)	1.3 (0.1)	0.03
(EORTC BLS-24) Future perspective	2.2 (1.0)	1.9 (0.8)	0.29
(EORTC BLS-24)

Higher scores indicate worse symptoms/worse functioning SD standard deviation, CAPSURE Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Research Endeavor, REACHResources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health, EORTC BLS-24 European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer: Bladder Cancer – Superficial-24