Table 2.
Quality of life anxiety and depressive symptoms, in breast cancer survivors and in women who never had cancer
| Women with no history of cancer (N = 252) | Women with history of breast cancer (N = 356) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (No. imputed*) | Mean score | SD | Range | % Floor¶ | % Ceiling¶ | No. (No. imputed*) | Mean score | SD | Range | % Floor | % Ceiling | |
| Quality of life in adult cancer survivors§ | ||||||||||||
| Generic | ||||||||||||
| Negative feelings | 251 (7) | 11.0 | 4.9 | 4–26 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 346 (22) | 11.6 | 5.3 | 4–28 | 4.3 | 0.3 |
| Positive feelings§ | 250 (5) | 21.1 | 5.4 | 7–28 | 0.0 | 9.9 | 347 (18) | 20.8 | 5.7 | 7–28 | 0.0 | 10.7 |
| Cognitive problems | 251 (4) | 10.5 | 4.7 | 4–28 | 6.2 | 0.8 | 350 (19) | 11.7 | 5.3 | 4–27 | 4.9 | 0.0 |
| Physical pain | 249 (4) | 11.1 | 6.5 | 4–28 | 12.0 | 0.8 | 347 (19) | 11.2 | 6.2 | 4–28 | 9.5 | 1.4 |
| Sexual interest/function | 227 (8) | 12.0 | 6.4 | 4–28 | 13.2 | 2.7 | 330 (27) | 13.6 | 7.2 | 4–28 | 13.0 | 4.9 |
| Fatigue/Energy | 251 (1) | 12.3 | 4.8 | 4–24 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 350 (11) | 13.3 | 5.0 | 4–25 | 3.7 | 0.0 |
| Social avoidance | 251 (21) | 9.8 | 5.6 | 4–28 | 17.3 | 0.4 | 347 (45) | 9.9 | 5.8 | 4–28 | 24.8 | 0.6 |
| Summary ‡ | 226 (0) | 75.7 | 27.7 | 28–157 | – | – | 318 (0) | 80.4 | 29.0 | 29–162 | - | - |
| Cancer-specific | ||||||||||||
| Financial problems | - | - | - | - | - | - | 351 (9) | 7.3 | 5.2 | 4–28 | 46.2 | 0.6 |
| Distress related to family | - | - | - | - | - | - | 352 (4) | 12.3 | 7.5 | 4–28 | 2.6 | 7.8 |
| Appearance concerns | - | - | - | - | - | - | 350 (12) | 9.4 | 5.9 | 4–28 | 20.2 | 4.8 |
| Distress over recurrence | - | - | - | - | - | - | 351 (8) | 13.9 | 6.9 | 4–28 | 27.4 | 0.9 |
| Summary | - | - | - | - | - | - | 350 (0) | 42.7 | 19.6 | 16–106 | 7.1 | 2.9 |
| Benefits of cancer§ | - | - | - | - | - | - | 348 (7) | 17.0 | 6.6 | 4–28 | - | - |
| Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale | ||||||||||||
| Anxiety | 248 (7) | 6.4 | 4.1 | 0–20 | 5.0 | 0.4 | 351 (4) | 6.8 | 4.6 | 0–20 | 8.0 | 0.3 |
| Depression | 249 (4) | 3.6 | 3.3 | 0–17 | 14.5 | 0.0 | 352 (3) | 3.6 | 3.6 | 0–19 | 17.6 | 0.0 |
SD standard deviation
*Number of patient with score imputed. When one item was missing out of the four items in the domain, we imputed this item with the arithmetic mean of the values in the other three items. Mean domain score was not calculated for patients that did not reply to two or more items in a domain
§Higher scores represent poorer QoL, except for the domains ‘positive feelings’ and ‘benefits of cancer’
‡Calculated as the sum of all domain scores except for positive feelings
¶Proportion of patients with domain scores at the extreme low (floor) or high (ceiling) of the distribution