Table 1.
Socio-demographic and medical characteristics participants and non-responders
| Participants (N = 176) | Non-responders (n = 122)a | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | n | % | M | SD | n | % | |
| Socio-demographic Characteristics | ||||||||
| Age | 50.5 | 7.2 | 51.6 | 8.2 | ||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Men | 54 | 30.7 | 38 | 31.1 | ||||
| Woman | 122 | 69.3 | 83 | 68.0 | ||||
| Relational status | ||||||||
| Single | 20 | 11.4 | ||||||
| Partner, married or living together | 141 | 80.1 | ||||||
| Partner, not married or living together | 12 | 6.8 | ||||||
| Widowed | 3 | 1.7 | ||||||
| Having children | 148 | 84.1 | ||||||
| Family members | 11.9 | 10.8 | ||||||
| Supportive family members | 6.6 | 4.2 | ||||||
| Supportive friends | 13.5 | 12.6 | ||||||
| Graduation level | ||||||||
| Elementary school | 13 | 7.4 | ||||||
| High school | 101 | 57.7 | ||||||
| Graduate school | 53 | 30.3 | ||||||
| University | 8 | 4.6 | ||||||
| Job occupation | ||||||||
| Employed | 41 | 23.3 | ||||||
| Work interruption/on sick leave | 91 | 51.7 | ||||||
| Unemployed | 12 | 6.8 | ||||||
| Disabled | 20 | 11.4 | ||||||
| Housewife/houseman | 6 | 3.4 | ||||||
| Retired | 6 | 3.4 | ||||||
| Monthly house hold income | ||||||||
| < € 1500 | 51 | 30.7 | ||||||
| € 1500–€ 3000 | 79 | 47.6 | ||||||
| > € 3000 | 36 | 21.7 | ||||||
| Medical characteristics | ||||||||
| Type of treatment | ||||||||
| Surgery | 138 | 81.7 | 94 | 84.7 | ||||
| Radiotherapy | 104 | 61.2 | 52 | 46.8 | ||||
| Chemotherapy | 109 | 64.5 | 57 | 51.8 | ||||
| Hormone therapy | 58 | 34.3 | 27 | 24.3 | ||||
| Immune therapy | 1 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.9 | ||||
| Concomitant radio-chemotherapy | 18 | 10.7 | 16 | 14.4 | ||||
| Bone marrow transplantation | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Isotopes | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Other treatment | 5 | 3.0 | 6 | 5.5 | ||||
| Time since diagnosis (weeks)b, c | 62.8 | 104.5 | − | − | ||||
| Phase of care trajectory | ||||||||
| Active treatment phase | 115 | 65.3 | ||||||
| Completion of treatment | 13 | 7.4 | ||||||
| Follow-up phase | 47 | 26.9 | ||||||
Abbreviations: M mean, SD standard deviation, n number of participants
aData of only 117 out of 128 non-responders received, bDate of questionnaire completion or diagnosis missing for some participants, mean time since diagnosis based on n = 158, cTime since diagnosis unknown for non-responders, since date of invitation to participate in the research was not registered