Table 4.

Noninferiority of Telephone Counseling to In-Person Counseling on Psychosocial, Quality-of-Life, and Informed Decision–Making Outcomes Per-Protocol Analysis

Outcome	Mean Difference	97.5% CI	Noninferiority Margin*
Anxiety	0.08	−0.52 to 0.45	5
Cancer-specific distress	0.66	−1.75 to 2.28	4
Quality of life: physical health	−0.39	−1.35 to 1.06	−2.5
Quality of life: mental health	0.30	−0.83 to 2.26	−2.5
Decisional conflict	−0.12	−3.69 to 2.03	4
Decisional regret	−0.31	−4.25 to 2.29	5
Perceived personal control	−0.01	−0.06 to 0.06	−0.2

^*A noninferiority test tests that the telephone counseling mean is not worse than the in-person counseling mean (as the reference mean) by more than the prespecified noninferiority margin.