Table 2.

Health services utilization and expenditure at week 11 (N=180).

	Reflexology N=89 n (%)	Control N=91 n (%)	p value a
Had oncology visits	76 (85.4)	81 (89.0)	0.467
Had emergent care visits	15 (16.9)	20 (22.0)	0.385
Had hospital visits	23 (25.8)	36 (39.6)	0.050
Had other service visits c	64 (71.9)	73 (80.2)	0.191
	Median (IQR)	Median (IQR)	p value b
Number of oncology visits	4 (2, 6)	4 (2, 8)	0.605
Number of emergent care visits	0 (0, 0)	0 (0, 0)	0.314
Number of hospital visits	0 (0, 1)	0 (0, 2)	0.060
Number of other service visits c	2 (0, 7)	3 (1, 11)	0.054
Oncology expenditure	0 (0, 80)	0 (0, 100)	0.653
Emergency care expenditure	0 (0, 0)	0 (0, 0)	0.692
Hospital expenditure	0 (0, 0)	0 (0, 0)	0.323
Other service expenditure c	210 (7, 720)	279 (60, 829)	0.114
	Reflexology N=28	Control N=30	p value b
Absolute absenteeism in past 7 days	0 (0, 6)	2 (0, 10)	0.582
Relative absenteeism in past 7 days	0 (0, 0)	0 (0, 0)	0.365
Absolute presenteeism in past 7 days	90 (75, 95)	80 (60, 90) d	0.087
Relative presenteeism in past 7 days	1 (1, 1)	1 (1, 1) e	0.161

IQR = interquartile range (25^th, 75^th quantile)

^a.Based on Chi-squared test

^b.Based on Wilcoxon rank-sum test

^c.Other service visits include laboratory visits, primary care provider visits, social worker visits, psychology visits, support group visits, nurse visits. Other expenditure in addition includes out of pocket expense for medication, personal care, special supplies and miscellaneous expense related to cancer care.

^d.Data missing for three patients

^e.Data missing for four patients