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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2018 Dec 14;27(8):2837–2847. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4592-4

Table 3.

Effect of reflexology on having specific health services at week 11 (N=180) a

Unweighted, Unadjusted Weighted, Unadjusted b
Reflexology vs. Control(ref) Reflexology vs. Control(ref) c
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Oncology visits 0.72 [0.30,1.74] 0.96 [0.35,2.61]
Emergent care visits 0.72 [0.30,1.51] 0.68 [0.30,1.52]
Hospital visits 0.53 [0.28,1.00] 0.49* [0.25,0.97]
Other service visits d 0.63 [0.32,1.26] 0.80 [0.37,1.70]

Unweighted, Adjusted e Weighted, Adjusted b,e
Reflexology vs. Control(ref) c Reflexology vs. Control(ref) c
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI

Oncology visits 0.74 [0.27,2.06] 0.75 [0.24,2.34]
Emergent care visits 0.71 [0.30,1.68] 0.67 [0.27,1.69]
Hospital visits 0.35** [0.16,0.75] 0.30** [0.13,0.66]
Other service visits d 0.59 [0.25,1.37] 0.70 [0.32,1.52]

OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; ref = reference.

*

p < 0.05

**

p < 0.01

***

p < 0.001

a.

Outcomes were dichotomized as zero versus one or more visit

b.

Inverse probability weighting with the probability for remaining in the study by week 11 estimated by logistic regression using baseline covariates in Table 1

c.

Baseline data missing for four patients

d.

Other service visits include laboratory visits, primary care provider visits, social worker visits, psychology visits, support group visits, nurse visits

e.

Adjusted by baseline covariates in Table 1.