Table 1.
Participant demographic information (patients, siblings, and comparison between groups).
| Patient campers (n = 1,230) n (%) |
Sibling campers (n = 884) n (%) |
χ2 | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 581 (47.4) | 488 (55.3) | 1.5 | 0.23 |
| Female | 645 (52.6) | 395 (44.7) | |||
| Cancer treatmenta | On-treatment | 202 (16.9) | 197 (23.2) | 12.3 | <0.001 |
| Not on-treatment | 991 (83.1) | 653 (76.8) | |||
| Cancer relapsea | Cancer relapsed | 123 (10.9) | 143 (18.1) | 19.9 | <0.001 |
| Cancer did not relapse | 1,003 (89.1) | 648 (81.9) | |||
| Camp experience | First-year attending camp | 254 (20.9) | 216 (24.8) | 4.3 | 0.04 |
| Returning camper | 963 (79.1) | 659 (75.3) | |||
| Camp model | Oncology patients only | 789 (64.1) | n/a | Not compared due to different applicable models | |
| Siblings only | n/a | 476 (53.8) | |||
| Oncology patients and siblings | 432 (35.1) | 397 (44.9) | |||
| Family camp | 9 (0.7) | 11 (1.2) | |||
| Camper’s sibling also attended campb | Yes | 278 (22.8) | 604 (69.2) | 449.8 | <0.001 |
| No | 941 (77.2) | 269 (30.8) | |||
| Bereaved sibling | n/a | 125 (14.7) | n/a | ||
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | t | p | ||
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| Age (years) | 12.9 (3.1) | 12.0 (2.8) | −7.1 | <0.001 | |
| Number of years camp attended | 3.3 (2.9) | 2.9 (2.7) | −3.3 | <0.001 | |
a
Siblings were asked to report on their brother/sister with cancer’s current treatment and relapse status.
b
Sibling attended camp at the same time as the respondent.