Table 1.
Participant demographics by assigned intervention
| Demographic characteristics | Interventions |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (N = 30) |
Control (N = 10) |
A (N = 11) |
B (N = 9) |
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| Age group (years) | |||||
| 50–69 | 7 (23.3) | 1 (10.0) | 2 (18.2) | 4 (44.4) | 0.224 |
| 70+ | 23 (76.7) | 9 (90.0) | 9 (81.8) | 5 (55.6) | |
| Education | |||||
| No formal qualifications | 11 (36.7) | 6 (60.0) | 5 (45.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0.048 |
| At least one qualification | 15 (50.0) | 4 (40.0) | 5 (45.5) | 6 (66.7) | |
| Missing data | 4 (13.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (9.1) | 3 (33.3) | |
| Cancer experience | |||||
| Self, family, friend | 28 (93.3) | 10 (100.0) | 9 (81.8) | 9 (100.0) | 1.000 |
| None | 1 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (9.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Missing data | 1 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (9.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Relationship status | |||||
| Married or with partner | 16 (53.3) | 8 (80.0) | 5 (45.5) | 3 (33.3) | 0.139 |
| Single, divorced, widow | 14 (43.3) | 2 (20.0) | 5 (45.5) | 6 (66.7) | |
| Missing data | 1 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (9.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
Note: Values in parenthesis are relative frequencies in percentages based on the column total. P-values shown are based on Fisher’s exact test. P < 0.05 indicates statistical significance.