TABLE 1.

Demographic and Illness Variables for Total Sample and by Analgesic Treatment Belief Cluster

	Total (N = 207)		Side Effect Cluster (N = 53)		Need It Later Cluster (N = 154)
Characteristic	$\overline{\text{X}}$	SD	$\overline{\text{X}}$	SD	$\overline{\text{X}}$	SD	p
Age (years)	53.8	11.1	54.2	12.5	53.7	10.7	0.798
Time since diagnosis (months)	36.7	35.5	30.5	29.4	38.9	37.2	0.138
Charlson Comorbidity Index	4.3	2.6	4.4	2.3	4.3	2.8	0.725
Health literacy	13.1	2.6	13.3	2.7	13	2.6	0.413
Social support	3.7	2.1	4.1	2.3	3.6	2	0.102
Poor physical health (past 30 days)	14.7	10.7	15.7	11.3	14.4	10.5	0.439
Poor mental health (past 30 days)	9.5	10.7	8.3	10.1	9.9	10.9	0.333
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%	p
General health							0.992
Excellent	9	4	2	4	7	5
Very good	23	11	6	11	17	11
Good	63	30	17	32	46	30
Fair	77	37	20	37	57	37
Poor	35	17	8	15	27	18
Gender							0.512
Female	117	57	32	60	85	55
Male	90	44	21	40	69	45
Race							0.751
White	121	59	30	57	91	59
African American	86	42	23	43	63	41
Marital status							0.397
Married	110	53	25	47	85	55
Separated/divorced/widowed	56	27	19	36	37	24
Never married	41	20	9	17	32	21
Highest level of education							0.922
Elementary	3	2	1	2	2	1
High school	70	34	16	30	54	35
College/trade school	101	49	27	51	74	48
More than college	33	16	9	17	24	16
Job status							0.934
Full-time outside of home	43	21	11	21	32	21
Part-time outside of home	12	6	4	8	8	5
Full-time at home	4	2	1	2	3	2
Part-time at home	4	2	–	–	4	3
Retired	44	21	11	21	33	21
Unemployed	25	12	6	11	19	12
Other	75	36	20	38	55	36
Income ($)							0.861
Less than 30,000	73	35	21	40	52	34
30,000–49,999	36	17	9	17	27	18
50,000–69,999	37	18	7	13	30	20
70,000–90,000	24	12	6	11	18	12
More than 90,000	37	18	10	19	27	18
Insurance type							0.731
Private	107	52	25	47	82	54
Medicare	41	20	13	25	28	18
Medicaid	27	13	6	11	21	14
Multiple	25	3	8	15	17	11
Other	6	12	1	2	5	3
Missing data	1	–	–	–	1	1
Cancer type							0.541
Breast	38	18	12	23	26	17
Lung	32	16	9	17	23	15
Gastrointestinal	31	15	9	17	22	14
Genitourinary/reproductive	25	12	4	8	21	14
Multiple myeloma	34	16	7	13	27	18
Other solid tumors	47	23	12	23	35	23
Cancer stage							0.721
I	13	6	2	4	11	7
II	24	12	7	13	17	11
III	31	15	6	11	25	16
IV	60	29	17	32	43	28
Unknown or unsure	79	38	21	40	58	38
History of substance abuse							0.659
No	172	83	43	81	129	84
Yes	35	17	10	19	25	16
Presence of depression							0.379
No	120	58	28	53	92	60
Yes	87	42	25	47	62	40

Note. Because of rounding, percentages may not total 100.

Note. P values are based on t tests for continuous variables and χ² for categorical variables.

Note. Clusters are based on data from Rosa et al., 2020.