Table 2.
Prognostic awareness and information preferences for the entire study population
| Patients (N = 50) | Caregivers (N = 32) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| PA | Full PA | 20 | 40 | 22 | 69 |
| Limited PA | 20 | 40 | 9 | 28 | |
| No PA | 10 | 20 | 1 | 3 | |
| Communication preferences | Prognostic information is extremely or very important to know | 30 | 60 | 23 | 72 |
| Wants more prognostic information | 21 | 42 | 16 | 50 | |
| Quality of information is fair or poor | 8 | 16 | 6 | 19 | |
| Information sources | Internet is source of information | 33 | 66 | 26 | 81 |
| Physician or nurse is source of information | 44 | 88 | 31 | 97 | |
| Cognitive impairment | TMT Part A: z ≤ −1.5 | 33 | 66 | ||
| TMT Part B: z ≤ −1.5 | 35 | 70 | |||
| COWA Total: z ≤ −1.5 | 28 | 56 | |||
| HVLT-R Total: z ≤ −1.5 | 32 | 64 | |||
| HVLT-R Delay: z ≤ −1.5 | 38 | 74 | |||
| HVLT-R Discrimination Index: z ≤ −1.5 | 33 | 66 | |||
| Mood | Anxiety (HADS ≥8) | 19 | 38 | ||
| Depression (HADS ≥8) | 19 | 38 | |||
| Quality of life | FACT-Br Total Score | Median: 112 | SD 24 | ||
| FACT-Br Emotional Subscale | Median: 15 | SD: 5 | |||
Abbreviations: TMT, Trail-Making Test; COWA, Controlled Oral Word Association; HVLT-R, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test–Revised; HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; FACT-Br, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Brain.