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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2018 Oct 27;27(7):2443–2451. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4518-1

Table 1.

Participant characteristics, overall and by cancer stage*

Overall (n=212) Non-metastatic (n=62) Metastatic (n=150) P value
Characteristic n Mean or% n Mean or % n Mean or %
Age, mean (SD) 209 46 (8) 60 45 (7) 149 46 (8) 0.8
Female gender 157 74 50 81 107 71 0.2
Caucasian 185 87 57 92 128 85 0.2
Married or partnered 178 84 55 89 123 83 0.3
College graduate 134 63 44 71 90 60 0.1
Employeda 114 54 46 75 68 45 < 0.0001
Annual household income >$50,000 150 71 50 86 100 68 0.01
Number of children ≤18, mean (SD) 210 2 (1) 61 2 (1) 149 2 (1) 0.7
Age of children ≤18, mean (SD) 210 11 (4) 61 10 (5) 149 12 (4) 0.02
Age of youngest child ≤ 18, mean (SD) 210 10 (5) 61 9 (5) 149 10 (5) 0.1
Location cancer care
care 63 30 0 0.0 63 42 < 0.0001
 UNC 35 17 15 24 20 13
 MGH 114 54 47 76 67 45
 DFCI
Breast cancer 84 40 36 59 48 32 < 0.0001
Receiving anti-neoplastic treatment 180 85 51 82 129 86 0.5
CCI score, mean (SD) 210 5 (2) 62 2 (0) 149 6 (1) < 0.0001
Duration of illness, months, mean (SD) 209 49 (135) 61 73 (238) 145 39 (42) 0.1
Prior mental health diagnosis or treatment 94 44 25 40 69 47 0.4
FACT-G PWB score, mean (SD) 199 12 (7) 59 9 (6) 140 13 (7) < 0.0001
*

Based on means ±SD for continuous variables and percents for categorical variables

a

Full-time, part-time or home-maker

Abbreviations: UNC=University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; MGH=Massachusetts General Hospital; DFCI =Dana Farber Cancer Institute; CCI=Charlson Co-Morbidity Index (higher scores indicate more co-morbidity); FACT-G PWB=Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–General Physical Well-Being subscale (higher scores indicate worse physical well-being)