Table 1.
Participants’ demographic information
| Interviews (n=22) | Focus groups (n=12) | |
| Age range (years (median)) | 42–83 (65.5) | 52–79 (68.5) |
| Gender (female %) | 59 | 8 |
| Ethnicity % | ||
| White British | 95 | 100 |
| Chinese | 5 | |
| Marital status (%) | ||
| Single | 4.55 | 16.67 |
| Married/domestic partner | 90.90 | 66.67 |
| Widowed | 4.55 | 8.33 |
| Divorced | – | 8.33 |
| Employment status (%) | ||
| Self-employed | – | 8.33 |
| Retired | 75.00 | 83.34 |
| Unable to work | 18.75 | 8.33 |
| Homemaker | 6.25 | – |
| Performance status (%) | ||
| 0 | 52.94 | 45.45 |
| 1 | 47.06 | 54.55 |
| Type of trial n (%) | ||
| Patients who are considered for the trial and then deemed ineligible (are often referred to as ‘screen fail’) | 2 (9) | – |
| Observational | 2 (9) | – |
| Phase I | 9 (41) | 7 (67) |
| Phase II | 9 (41) | 5 (33) |
| Time on trial (<1 year, %) | 54.55 | 50 |
| Disease group | ||
| Breast | 31.82 | – |
| Colorectal | 13.64 | 16.67 |
| Head and neck | – | 8.33 |
| Haematological | 9.09 | – |
| Lung | 22.72 | 16.67 |
| Leukaemia | 8.33 | |
| Lymphoma | 18.18 | 41.67 |
| Penile | 4.55 | – |
| Renal | – | 8.33 |