Table 2.
Sociodemographic and disease characteristics of cancer survivors participating in a randomized study of Coping with Cancer in the Kitchen
| Total Sample (N = 53) |
Coping with Cancer in the Kitchen Intervention (n = 26) |
Printed Materials Control (n = 27) |
p-Value a | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor | No. of Participants | % | No. of Participants | % | No. of Participants | % | ||||
| Sociodemographic Characteristics | ||||||||||
| Age, years | 0.25 | |||||||||
| Mean | 61.2 | 59.5 | 62.8 | |||||||
| SD | 10.5 | 9.7 | 11.1 | |||||||
| Range | 37–80 | 37–74 | 41–80 | |||||||
| Gender | 0.99 | |||||||||
| Female | 49 | 92 | 24 | 92 | 25 | 93 | ||||
| Male | 4 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Race | 0.43 | |||||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 41 | 77 | 18 | 69 | 23 | 85 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic black | 4 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic, other | 6 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Hispanic or Latino | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Education | 0.30 | |||||||||
| Did not graduate college | 14 | 26 | 6 | 23 | 8 | 30 | ||||
| College graduate | 16 | 30 | 6 | 23 | 10 | 37 | ||||
| Postgraduate | 23 | 43 | 14 | 54 | 9 | 33 | ||||
| Geographic region | 0.53 | |||||||||
| Urban | 21 | 40 | 11 | 44 | 10 | 37 | ||||
| Suburban | 27 | 52 | 11 | 44 | 16 | 59 | ||||
| Rural | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Marital status | 0.43 | |||||||||
| Married or living as married | 27 | 52 | 15 | 60 | 12 | 44 | ||||
| Single (never married) | 13 | 25 | 6 | 24 | 7 | 26 | ||||
| Divorced or separated | 9 | 17 | 4 | 16 | 5 | 19 | ||||
| Widowed | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | ||||
| Disease Characteristics | ||||||||||
| Time since cancer diagnosis | 0.57 | |||||||||
| Mean | 4.9 | 5.4 | 4.5 | |||||||
| SD | 5.9 | 6.8 | 5.0 | |||||||
| Range | <1 to 27 | <1 to 27 | <1 to 21 | |||||||
| Primary cancer diagnosis | 0.18 | |||||||||
| Breast | 25 | 47 | 9 | 35 | 16 | 59 | ||||
| Metastatic breast | 6 | 11 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Blood | 5 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 11 | ||||
| Female reproductive | 4 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Multiple cancers specified | 6 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 15 | ||||
| Other | 7 | 13 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Ever received chemotherapy | ||||||||||
| Yes | 29 | 56 | 14 | 56 | 15 | 56 | 0.97 | |||
| No | 23 | 44 | 11 | 44 | 12 | 44 | ||||
| Health Status | ||||||||||
| Perceived health | 0.87 | |||||||||
| Excellent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Very good | 15 | 31 | 8 | 33 | 7 | 28 | ||||
| Good | 23 | 47 | 11 | 46 | 12 | 48 | ||||
| Fair | 10 | 20 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 24 | ||||
| Poor | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Body Mass Index, kg/m2 | 0.84 | |||||||||
| Underweight (<18.5) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Normal (18.5–24.9) | 17 | 32 | 10 | 38 | 7 | 26 | ||||
| Overweight (25.0–29.9) | 13 | 25 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 26 | ||||
| Obese (>30) | 21 | 40 | 9 | 35 | 12 | 44 | ||||
| In the last month, ate enough plant-based foods | 0.73 | |||||||||
| None of the time | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| A little of the time | 7 | 14 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 12 | ||||
| Some of the time | 19 | 39 | 8 | 33 | 11 | 44 | ||||
| Most of the time | 16 | 33 | 9 | 38 | 7 | 28 | ||||
| All of the time | 6 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 16 |
a Two-sample t-tests for continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables. SD: standard deviation.