Table 4.
Time spent on caregiving and household chores and lost work time among partner caregivers of prostate cancer patients by patient and caregiver characteristics over 1 year after diagnosis
| Mean lost workplace hours (SD) |
p Value | Mean informal caregiving hours (SD) |
p Value | Mean household chore hours (SD) |
p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 134.1 (366.3) | 65.9 (172.4) | 76.2 (193.3) | |||
| Caregiver characteristics | ||||||
| Age (years) | 0.23 | 0.81 | 0.52 | |||
| <65 | 147 (410.6) | 72.4 (193.5) | 95.6 (211.2) | |||
| 65+ | 45 (238.1) | 62.8 (163.3) | 67.2 (185.5) | |||
| Race/ethnicity | 0.89 | 0.03 | 0.83 | |||
| Non-Hispanic white | 117.4 (366.3) | 143.7 (316.9) | 84.8 (231.9) | |||
| Non-Hispanic black/Hispanic/Asian | 104.2 (376.2) | 44.5 (96.4) | 73.9 (183.2) | |||
| Employment | <0.001 | 0.52 | 0.32 | |||
| Full time/part time/self-employed | 276.9 (500.4) | 76.4 (203.6) | 94.4 (214.5) | |||
| Retired/unemployed/unknown | (14.7) (80.8) | 52.7 (123.9) | 53.3 (162.7) | |||
| Education | 0.87 | 0.04 | 0.02 | |||
| Some college or less | 107 (371.0) | 111.0 (258.5) | 132.1 (289.0) | |||
| College graduate or higher | 120 (366.5) | 33.1 (31.7) | 35.7 (29.9) | |||
| Household income (US$/year) | 0.77 | 0.41 | 0.02 | |||
| <40,000 | 83.1 (485.3) | 118 (278.3) | 210 (374.4) | |||
| 40,000–74,999 | 67.5 (321.2) | 81.3 (187.7) | 32.5 (24.2) | |||
| 75,000+ | 134.2 (353.1) | 50.2 (136.1) | 58.6 (148.5) | |||
| Self-reported health at baseline | 0.66 | 0.69 | 0.06 | |||
| Excellent/very good | 94.7 (385.2) | 57.5 (165.2) | 120.4 (276.2) | |||
| Good/fair/poor | 129.6 (354.5) | 72.3 (179.1) | 42.6 (77.9) | |||
| Patient characteristics | ||||||
| Insurance | 0.17 | 0.63 | 0.18 | |||
| Medicare | 203.2 (466.5) | 74.6 (185.6) | 53.7 (97.7) | |||
| Private (non-Medicare) | 31.8 (190.4) | 48.9 (130.0) | 29.8 (15.9) | |||
| VA/military | 101.3 (405) | 35.8 (26.6) | 102.4 (254.5) | |||
| Employment | 0.61 | 0.72 | 0.03 | |||
| Full time/part time/self-employed | 97.2 (362.2) | 71.8 (179.3) | 36.4 (56.3) | |||
| Retired/unemployed/unknown | 137.4 (375.3) | 58.2 (165.0) | 128.6 (280.5) | |||
| Disease classification | 0.95 | 0.06 | 0.89 | |||
| Low risk | 112 (358.5) | 31.8 (21.4) | 73.2 (174.3) | |||
| Moderate/high risk | 117.2 (378.6) | 101.6 (242.0) | 79.2 (211.8) | |||
| Number of comorbidities | 0.58 | 0.41 | 0.12 | |||
| 0 | 66.7 (240.2) | 99.2 (271.5) | 139.6 (324.6) | |||
| 1 | 160.5 (399.8) | 61.8 (129.8) | 48.5 (90.1) | |||
| 2+ | 97.5 (431.1) | 34.7 (19.8) | 47.7 (52.4) | |||
| Change in EPICa domain summary scores (12-month vs. baseline) | ||||||
| Urinary irritation function | 0.82 | 0.92 | 0.88 | |||
| No/mild decrease | 126.5 (365.8) | 56.2 (147.6) | 55.9 (134.4) | |||
| Moderate/severe decrease | 157.5 (445.5) | 61.75 (63.6) | 48.8 (64.3) | |||
| Urinary incontinent function | 0.98 | 0.1 | 0.41 | |||
| No/mild decrease | 127.2 (356.8) | 47.5 (134.0) | 56.9 (143.4) | |||
| Moderate/severe decrease | 129.6 (404.2) | 117.5 (247.1) | 90.5 (215.3) | |||
| Sexual | 0.21 | 0.03 | 0.01 | |||
| No/mild decrease | 79.6 (321.6) | 29 (17.6) | 37.5 (37.9) | |||
| Moderate/severe decrease | 185.6 (444.4) | 106.4 (249.6) | 147.1 (307.0) | |||
| Survey site | 0.17 | 0.57 | 0.68 | |||
| California | 75.8 (298.4) | 80.3 (211.6) | 70.2 (193.9) | |||
| Texas | 101.3 (405) | 39 (28.5) | 113.8 (254.9) | |||
| South Carolina | 276 (517.5) | 39.9 (49.0) | 58.9 (100.4) |
SD standard deviation
a
The Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) score (Wei et al. 2000)