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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Invest Dermatol. 2019 Apr 5;139(9):1898–1905.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2019.02.033

Table 2.

Baseline demographic and treatment characteristics and associations with performance of Skin Self-Exam (SSE) and Physician Skin Exam (PSE)

N SSE vs Neither
PSE vs Neither
Both vs Neither
P-value
aRRR* 95% CI aRRR 95% CI aRRR 95% CI
Sex
 Male 339 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.19
 Female 389 1.72 (1.04, 2.82) 1.05 (0.6, 1.85) 1.24 (0.74, 2.08)
Education
 High School or less 78 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.001
 Some College 160 1.17 (0.51, 2.70) 0.64 (0.19, 2.16) 1.29 (0.45, 3.74)
 College Graduate 303 1.14 (0.53, 2.46) 1.53 (0.53, 4.41) 2.15 (0.81, 5.67)
 Post-Graduate 187 0.75 (0.31, 1.81) 3.63 (1.24, 10.66) 2.43 (0.87, 6.82)
Age at survey, years
 < 35 70 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.006
 35-39 155 0.65 (0.27, 1.60) 3.48 (0.69, 17.63) 0.92 (0.37, 2.31)
 40-44 180 0.51 (0.19, 1.37) 5.44 (1.07, 27.61) 0.88 (0.32, 2.38)
 45-49 164 0.63 (0.21, 1.90) 12.97 (2.34, 71.84) 1.39 (0.45, 4.27)
 50-54 103 0.80 (0.23, 2.80) 18.41 (2.87, 118.23) 1.56 (0.39, 6.22)
 55+ 53 0.44 (0.10, 1.94) 28.33 (3.7, 217.15) 3.33 (0.72, 15.43)
Race
 White 672 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.02
 Non-White** 52 0.92 (0.37, 2.32) 1.04 (0.3, 3.58) 0.72 (0.23, 2.27)
Skin type
 Very fair/Fair 530 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF < 0.001
 Olive/Dark/Very Dark 184 1.34 (0.79, 2.28) 0.55 (0.27, 1.14) 0.79 (0.42, 1.48)
Age at diagnosis, years
 0-4 269 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.19
 5-9 165 1.82 (0.87, 3.81) 1.73 (0.73, 4.1) 1.04 (0.49, 2.21)
 10-14 159 1.57 (0.62, 3.93) 1.24 (0.44, 3.5) 0.69 (0.27, 1.78)
 15+ 135 1.45 (0.49, 4.29) 0.50 (0.14, 1.81) 0.32 (0.1, 1.1)
Diagnosis
 Bone cancer 43 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.07
 Central Nervous System 48 1.92 (0.4, 9.28) 7.25 (1.25, 42.23) 1.69 (0.33, 8.73)
 Hodgkin lymphoma 150 2.85 (0.8, 10.2) 3.54 (0.83, 15.16) 1.91 (0.51, 7.16)
 Wilms tumor 104 1.65 (0.36, 7.53) 6.67 (1.24, 36.02) 2.07 (0.44, 9.69)
 Leukemia 203 4.15 (1.05, 16.43) 3.14 (0.65, 15.26) 5.14 (1.23, 21.44)
 Neuroblastoma 43 2.04 (0.36, 11.51) 8.30 (1.33, 51.96) 1.98 (0.34, 11.4)
 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 68 4.14 (1.02, 16.81) 3.57 (0.7, 18.31) 3.23 (0.72, 14.42)
 Soft tissue sarcoma 69 1.60 (0.42, 6.13) 1.11 (0.19, 6.42) 1.14 (0.28, 4.6)
Chemotherapy
 No 234 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF < 0.001
 Yes 480 1.23 (0.68, 2.23) 1.57 (0.82, 3.03) 1.54 (0.82, 2.89)
Highest CTCAE Grade
Chronic Condition
 0 115 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 0.27
 1-2 334 0.94 (0.46, 1.94) 0.48 (0.22, 1.05) 0.71 (0.36, 1.43)
 3-4 279 1.18 (0.56, 2.51) 0.90 (0.41, 1.98) 0.65 (0.3, 1.38)
Max RT dose in cGy
 < 2000 179 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF < 0.001
 2000-3999 332 0.86 (0.45, 1.65) 0.70 (0.34, 1.44) 1.12 (0.57, 2.18)
 4,000+ 195 1.64 (0.6, 4.5) 0.85 (0.28, 2.57) 3.08 (1, 9.5)
Patient activation measure
 1 71 1.00 REF 1.00 REF 1.00 REF < 0.001
 2 99 1.17 (0.36, 3.82) 1.77 (0.56, 5.65) 2.95 (0.85, 10.22)
 3 308 2.79 (1.08, 7.22) 1.30 (0.47, 3.6) 2.91 (0.95, 8.96)
 4 234 3.83 (1.47, 10) 1.69 (0.61, 4.71) 4.16 (1.34, 12.85)
*

Adjusted relative risk ratio- Sex, education, age (years), race/ethnicity, skin type, age at diagnosis, diagnosis, chemotherapy (yes/no), Highest CTCAE Grade Chronic Condition, maximum radiotherapy dose, patient activation

**

White, Non- Hispanic, Black Non-Hispanic, Hispanic, Asian, Non-Hispanic