Table 3.
Psychosocial and work-related factors of prostate cancer survivors at the beginning of the rehabilitation program with regard to work status at 12-months follow-up (N = 711)
| Not returned to work 12 months after the end of the rehabilitation program | Returned to work 12 months after the end of the rehabilitation program | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 93 | N = 618 | ||||||||
| n | % | M | SD | n | % | M | SD | p-value | |
| Psychosocial well-being, function and symptoms | |||||||||
| Anxiety and Depression (HADS) | |||||||||
| Anxiety | 93 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 616 | 5.6 | 3.8 | .149a | ||
| Depression | 93 | 5.4 | 4.0 | 617 | 4.8 | 3.4 | .146a | ||
| Quality of Life – functioning (EORTC QLQ-C30)b | |||||||||
| Global health status/ quality of life | 93 | 48.1 | 22.4 | 618 | 53.1 | 20.6 | .032 a | ||
| Physical functioning | 93 | 68.2 | 20.9 | 617 | 72.9 | 19.0 | .031 a | ||
| Role functioning | 93 | 37.1 | 31.4 | 615 | 40.6 | 33.7 | .350a | ||
| Emotional functioning | 93 | 61.0 | 27.8 | 615 | 64.0 | 24.9 | .283a | ||
| Cognitive functioning | 93 | 77.1 | 26.7 | 616 | 78.6 | 22.8 | .547a | ||
| Social functioning | 93 | 50.7 | 30.0 | 618 | 56.1 | 27.7 | .083a | ||
| Quality of life – symptoms (EORTC QLQ-PR25)c | |||||||||
| Urinary symptoms | 93 | 48.2 | 19.5 | 615 | 45.7 | 20.0 | .265a | ||
| Bowel symptoms | 92 | 10.4 | 13.1 | 614 | 8.3 | 11.4 | .141a | ||
| Hormonal treatment-related symptoms | 92 | 16.0 | 13.3 | 617 | 14.0 | 12.2 | .143a | ||
| Bother due to use of incontinence aid | 73 | 47.0 | 35.9 | 452 | 42.1 | 33.5 | .249a | ||
| Work-related issues and behaviors | |||||||||
| Work-related behavior pattern (AVEM) | |||||||||
| Healthy ambitious- Type G | 25 | 26.9 | 156 | 25.2 | .092d | ||||
| Unambitious- Type S | 37 | 39.8 | 196 | 31.7 | |||||
| Excessively unambitious- Risk Type A | 14 | 15.1 | 112 | 18.1 | |||||
| Resigned- Risk Type B | 16 | 17.2 | 102 | 16.5 | |||||
| Unclear | 1 | 1.1 | 52 | 8.4 | |||||
| Work-related issues (SIBAR) | |||||||||
| Self-perceived work ability | 92 | 615 | |||||||
| Not able to work (< 3 h/day) | 38 | 41.3 | 124 | 20.2 | <.001 d | ||||
| Limited ability (3–6 h/day) | 49 | 53.3 | 415 | 67.5 | |||||
| Full ability (> 6 h/day) | 5 | 5.4 | 76 | 12.4 | |||||
| Sick leave in the 12 months preceding rehabilitation | |||||||||
| None or up to 5 weeks | 55 | 60.4 | 499 | 82.3 | <.001 d | ||||
| 6 weeks or more | 36 | 39.6 | 107 | 17.7 | |||||
| Intention to apply for a disability pension (yes) | 39 | 43.8 | 124 | 20.6 | <.001 d | ||||
| Occupational stress (yes) | 22 | 24.2 | 76 | 12.4 | .002 d | ||||
| Self-perceived capacity to return to the former job and related working tasks | |||||||||
| Probably or definitely yes | 55 | 59.1 | 532 | 86.6 | <.001 d | ||||
| Uncertain | 23 | 24.7 | 67 | 10.9 | |||||
| Probably or definitely no | 15 | 16.1 | 15 | 2.4 | |||||
| Effort-reward imbalance (ERI) | |||||||||
| Efforte | 89 | 16.5 | 5.1 | 614 | 15.5 | 4.4 | .094a | ||
| Reward | 85 | 46.4 | 7.6 | 591 | 48.2 | 6.8 | .022 a | ||
| Effort-reward imbalance (cut off ≥1) | 12 | 14.1 | 48 | 8.1 | .071d | ||||
Abbreviations M mean, SD Standard deviation, p-value probability of type I error
Significant p-values are marked in bold
at-test, two-tailed
bscale 0–100 (100 ≅ maximum level of functioning), symptom scales not included in the presented analyses
cscale 0–100 (100 ≅ maximum symptom burden), functioning scales not included in the presented analyses
dchi-square-test
eanalyses based on the six-item version