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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2015 Jun 8;24(10):1250–1257. doi: 10.1002/pon.3857

Table 1.

Participant characteristics*

Variables Overall (n=1053) Breast (n=528) Colorectal (n=106) Prostate (n=419)
Mean age in years (sd); range 62.8 (11.4); 27–94 58.92 (11.62); 27–94 65.24 (12.49); 29–94 67.11 (8.83); 44–90
Gender (% female) 55.3 100 50.9 0
Race/ethnicity
 White 715 (67.9%) 338 (64%) 83 (78.3%) 294 (70.2%)
 African-American 124 (11.8%) 63 (11.9%) 9 (8.5%) 52 (12.4%)
 Hispanic 196 (18.6%) 116 (22%) 13 (12.3%) 67 (16%)
 Other 18 (1.7%) 11 (2.1%) 1 (.9%) 6 (1.4%)
Education
 < High school 76 (7.6%) 34 (6.4%) 12 (11.8%) 30 (70.6%)
 High school graduate 147 (14.6%) 90 (17.8%) 14 (13.7%) 43 (10.8%)
 Some college/vocational school 241 (24%) 141 (27.9%) 26 (25.5%) 74 (18.6%)
 College/post graduate 540 (53.8%) 240 (47.5%) 50 (49%) 250 (63%)
Marital status
 Single 69 (6.8%) 46 (9%) 8 (7.8%) 15 (3.7%)
 Married/stable union 752 (73.6%) 337 (65.7%) 68 (66%) 347 (85.5%)
 Separated or divorced 101 (9.9%) 70 (13.6%) 12 (11.7%) 19 (4.7%)
 Widowed 100 (9.8%) 60 (11.7%) 15 (14.6%) 25 (6.2%)
Physical activity (minutes/week)
Vigorous 43.8 (122.8) 41 (145.9) 30.6 (57) 49.8 (102.77)
Moderate 73.09 (127.5) 67.4 (111.7) 85.3 (198.9) 74.95 (120.9)
Mild 98.3 (330.4) 77.5 (173.88) 83.17 (285.4) 129.28 (467)
Dietary habits
Fruits and Vegetables (mean daily servings) 5.22 (2.18) 4.99 (2.18) 4.56 (1.7) 5.2 (2.07)
Percent Energy from Fat 33.5 (4.67) 33.25 (5.39) 33.73 (3.7) 33.79 (3.84)
Smoking
Mean daily cigarettes smoked in last 7 days (sd) 6.81 (28.4) 5.69 (22.9) 6.9 (34.5) 8.3 (33.04)
Smoked cigarettes in last 7 days 78 (7.4%) 45 (8.5%) 5 (5%) 28 (6.7%)
BMI
Underweight or normal ( < 24.9) 334 (33%) 211 (40%) 28 (26.4%) 95 (22.7%)
Overweight (25–29.9) 395 (39.3%) 189 (35.7%) 49 (46.2%) 205 (49%)
Obese ( > 30) 277 (27.5%) 128 (24%) 29 (27.3%) 119 (28.4%)
Time from diagnosis (in years)
Mean (sd); range 4.6 (3.08); 0.5–20 4.5 (3.05); 0.46 – 10.19 4.88 (3.19); 0.46–20.12 4.57 (3.08); 0.46–10.27
0≤1 year 168 (16%) 96 (18%) 8 (8%) 64 (15.3%)
1 year–< 3 years 245 (23.3%) 113 (21.4%) 25 (24%) 107 (25.5%)
3 years–<5 years 152 (14.4%) 70 (13.2%) 27 (25.5%) 55 (13.1%)
5 years or more 488 (46.3%) 249 (47%) 46 (43.3%) 193 (46%)
Symptom burden
Mean (sd); range 1.38 (1.78); 0–10 1.69 (1.98); 0–10 1.5 (1.76); 0–8.6 0.95 (1.39); 0–9
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Table descriptors use n(%) reported for categorical and mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables