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. 2015 May 18;1(1):e5. doi: 10.2196/cancer.3883

Table 2.

Results of classification of patient’s dissatisfaction and anxiety in 495 sentences (n=100 blogs).

Category Categories and their description n (%)
1 Outpatient 9 (1.8)
2 Hospitalization/discharge/hospital change 18 (3.6)
3 Diagnosis/treatmenta 84 (17.0)
4 Palliative care 12 (2.4)
5 Notification, informed consent, second opiniona 128 (25.9)
6 Medical coordination 1 (0.2)
7 Home care 3 (0.6)
8 Facility and equipment/access 1 (0.2)
9 Relationships with medical staff (own hospital) 27 (5.5)
10 Relationships with medical staff (other hospitals) 1 (0.2)
11 Symptoms, side-effects, after-effects 26 (5.3)
12 Anxiety and other mental problems 33 (6.7)
13 Way of living, reasons for living, sense of valuesa 139 (28.1)
14 Work, economic burdens 0 (0)
15 Relationships with family and other people 13 (2.6)

aTop three classifications used in this research