Table 3.
Top ten most frequently reported ‘high or very high’ unmet needs in urban and rural support persons
| Overall rank | Unmet need item | Domain | Total sample (n = 1004) n (%) |
Urban (n = 792) n (%) |
Urban rank | Rural (n = 193) n (%) |
Rural rank | Chi-square | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dealing with the worrying about the future of the person I support | Needs relating to the future | 186 (19%) | 140 (18%) | 2 | 43 (23%) | 1 | 2.65 | 0.104 |
| 2 | Dealing with not knowing what lies in the future | Needs relating to the future | 184 (19%) | 144 (18%) | 1 | 38 (21%) | 2 | 0.61 | 0.433 |
| = 3 | Dealing with worry about the cancer getting worse | Needs relating to the future | 138 (14%) | 105 (14%) | = 5 | 31 (17%) | 4 | 1.50 | 0.221 |
| = 3 | Dealing with worries about the emotional well-being of my family | Personal needs | 138 (14%) | 106 (14%) | 4 | 29 (16%) | 5 | 0.48 | 0.488 |
| 5 | Finding information about what type of financial help is available and how to obtain it | Information and relationship needs | 137 (14%) | 99 (13%) | 7 | 37 (20%) | 3 | 7.00 | 0.008 |
| 6 | Telling my family friends how I am feeling emotionally | Personal needs | 136 (14%) | 112 (14%) | 3 | 23 (12%) | 12 | 0.53 | 0.466 |
| 7 | Dealing with worry about the cancer coming back | Needs relating to the future | 130 (13%) | 105 (13%) | = 5 | 23 (13%) | 11 | 0.09 | 0.764 |
| 8 | Dealing with feeling stressed | Personal needs | 125 (13%) | 97 (13%) | 8 | 26 (14%) | = 7 | 0.22 | 0.637 |
| 9 | Not sleeping well | Personal needs | 122 (12%) | 91 (12%) | 10 | 28 (15%) | 6 | 1.73 | 0.188 |
| 10 | Feeling tired or lacking energy | Personal needs | 121 (12%) | 95 (12%) | 9 | 24 (13%) | = 9 | 0.05 | 0.819 |