Table 2.
Baseline and demographic data. Values are numbers (percentages) unless specified otherwise
| Demographics | Immediate n = 92 |
Wait n = 87 |
|---|---|---|
| Age, mean ± SD | 72 ± 12.03 | 72 ± 12.50 |
| Sex, female n (%) | 56 (61) | 53 (61) |
| Education, standard n (%) | 62 (76) | 54 (70) |
| Marital status, single n (%) | 54 (61) | 61 (72) |
| Living status, living alone n (%) | 47 (53) | 54 (64) |
| Occupation, retired n (%) | 74 (86) | 70 (82) |
| Ethnicity, white British n (%) | 81 (92) | 76 (89) |
| Spirituality, religious n (%) | 58 (71) | 51 (69) |
| Cancer diagnosis, n (%) | 37 (41) | 47 (55) |
| Baseline quality of life | ||
| Quality of life, poor or very poor n (%) | 38 (44) | 37 (44) |
| Are you dissatisfied with your health? n (%) | 62 (70) | 65 (76) |
| Quality of life, mean ± SD | ||
| QoL Physical | 32.09 ± 15.21 | 34.95 ± 17.42 |
| QoL Psychological | 46.52 ± 19.10 | 45.74 ± 17.01 |
| QoL Environment | 58.75 ± 16.23 | 57.05 ± 14.76 |
| QoL Social relationships | 55.47 ± 23.26 | 52.88 ± 26.41 |
| Loneliness, mean ± SD | ||
| Social loneliness | 1.51 ± 1.21 | 1.69 ± 1.25 |
| Emotional loneliness | 1.70 ± 1.11 | 2.12 ± 0.87 |
| Total loneliness score | 3.17 ± 1.89 | 3.77 ± 1.66 |
| Social support, mean ± SD | ||
| mMOSS instrumental | 3.27 ± 1.31 | 3.00 ± 1.28 |
| mMOSS emotional | 3.25 ± 1.10 | 3.98 ± 1.09 |
| mMOSS total | 3.27 ± 1.08 | 3.01 ± 1.07 |
| Contacts | ||
| Number of people in contact with over last 2 weeks, mean ± SD | 4.39 ± 2.41 | 4.41 ± 2.56 |
| Overall number of contacts (visits, phone calls) over last 2 weeks, mean ± SD | 39.85 ± 31.03 | 46.29 ± 45.33 |
The WHOQOL-BREF comprises four individually scored domains. Domain scores are calculated by computing the mean scores within the domain, noting that negatively phrased questions are reverse scored. Domain scores are transformed to a 0–100 scale according to the formula in the WHOQOL Manual. Lower scores indicate a worse quality of life
QoL quality of life, mMOSS Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey