Table 4.
DCE patient survey respondents: DCE responses, individual characteristics and ‘current’ situation at 24-month follow-up
| All Medman trial participants | Trial groups | Intervention subgroups | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention and control together | Intervention | Control | Intervention still receiving at 24 months | Intervention not receiving at 24 months | |||
| N (%)a | N (%)a | N (%)a | P valueb | N (%)a | N (%)a | P valueb | |
| DCE completed | 714 (100) | 469 (100) | 245 (100) | - | 247 (100) | 222 (100) | - |
| DCE passing rationality tests | 676 (95) | 441 (94) | 235 (96) | - | 232 (94) | 208 (94) | - |
| DCE eligible for analysisc | 554 (78) | 364 (77.8) | 190 (77.5) | - | 188 (76.1) | 176 (79.3) | - |
| Gender (male) | 387 (54) | 250 (69) | 137 (72) | 0.40 | 125 (66) | 125 (71) | 0.35 |
| Age (mean (SD)) | 70.595 (8.31) | 70.44 (8.53) | 70.75 (8.09) | 0.67 | 72.00 (8.23) | 68.77 (8.55) | <0.01 |
| Income | 0.08 | <0.01 | |||||
| -Up to £20,000 | 366 (51) | 249 (79) | 117 (71) | 152 (87) | 97 (69) | ||
| -£20,000-£40,000 | 100 (14) | 57 (18) | 43 (26) | 20 (11) | 37 (26) | ||
| -Over £40,000 | 14 (2) | 9 (3) | 5 (3) | 2 (1) | 7 (5) | ||
| ‘Current’ situation | |||||||
| Advice | 0.98 | <0.01 | |||||
| - No advice | 230 (32) | 150 (41) | 80 (42) | 36 (19) | 114 (65) | ||
| -On medicines only | 175 (25) | 114 (31) | 61 (32) | 79 (42) | 35 (20) | ||
| - On health only | 9 (1) | 6 (2) | 3 (2) | 1 (1) | 5 (3) | ||
| -On Medicines/Health/life | 140 (20) | 94 (26) | 46 (24) | 72 (38) | 22 (13) | ||
| Privacy (yes) | 308 (43) | 215 (59) | 93 (49) | 0.23 | 146 (78) | 69 (39) | <0.01 |
| Replies (yes) | 267 (37) | 186 (51) | 81 (43) | 0.06 | 130 (69) | 56 (32) | <0.01 |
| Chance | 0.34 | <0.01 | |||||
| -Very poor | 14 (2) | 9 (2) | 5 (3) | 3 (2) | 6 (3) | ||
| -Poor | 204 (29) | 140 (39) | 64 (34) | 93 (50) | 47 (27) | ||
| -Good | 297 (42) | 190 (52) | 107 (56) | 88 (47) | 102 (58) | ||
| -Very Good | 36 (5) | 23 (6) | 13 (7) | 3 (2) | 20 (11) | ||
| Time (median [IQR]) | 15 [10–30] | 15 [10–30] | 15 [10–30] | 1 | 15 [10–25] | 17.5 [10–30] | 0.03 |
| Cost (median [IQR]) | 0 [0–0.58] | 0 [0–0.58] | 0 [0–0.8] | 0.53 | 0 [0–0.4] | 0 [0–0.8] | 0.03 |
a Percentages refer to the respondents completing each question; b Differences between groups at 24-month follow-up were tested using: independent t test statistics (continuous normally distributes data); Mann–Whitney test (continuous not normally distributed data); chi-squared test (categorical data); c Valid responses passing rationality testing and completing answers on their ‘current’