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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2015 Feb 10;35(3):371–387. doi: 10.1177/0272989X15570364

Table 2b.

Variation in Utilities based on SF-6D at Baseline Survey

Demographic Patients with SF-6D N (%) SF-6D Utilities Mean (SD) SF-6D Utilities Median (IQR)

All 2344 (100%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)

Sex
    Male 1211 (51.66%) 0.69 (0.13) 0.66 (0.15)
    Female 1154 (48.34%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    p-value* n.s

Race/Ethnicity
    Caucasian 1750 (74.62%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    Latino 104 (4.44%) 0.69 (0.15) 0.67 (0.20)
    African American 277 (11.82%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    Asian 80 (3.41 %) 0.69 (0.12) 0.66 (0.19)
    Other 133 (5.67%) 0.66 (0.14) 0.66 (0.19)
    p-value** n.s

Age
    <=54 353 (15.06%) 0.63 (0.14) 0.62 (0.18)
    55-59 299 (12.76%) 0.66 (0.13) 0.64 (0.15)
    60-64 352 (15.02%) 0.67 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    65-69 402 (17.15%) 0.69 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    70-74 393 (16.77%) 0.70 (0.14) 0.68 (0.20)
    75-79 313 (13.35%) 0.69 (0.13) 0.67 (0.20)
    80+ 232 (9.90%) 0.72 (0.13) 0.72 (0.24)
        p-value** <0.0001

Stage at Diagnosis
    I 730 (31.30%) 0.71 (0.14) 0.70 (0.22)
    II 230 (9.68%) 0.68 (0.13) 0.66 (0.21)
    III 638 (27.09%) 0.67 (0.13) 0.66 (0.17)
    IV 612 (26.21%) 0.66 (0.13) 0.66 (0.17)
    Unknown/Missing 134 (5.72%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.67 (0.20)
        p-value** <0.0001

Histology
    NSCLC 1979 (84.44%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.23)
    SCLC 258 (11.01 %) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    Missing 107 (4.56%) 0.66 (0.15) 0.64 (0.23)
    p-value** n.s

Treatment
    Surgery 550 (23.46%) 0.72 (0.15) 0.72 (0.26)
    Chemotherapy 350 (14.93%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.20)
    Radiotherapy 121 (5.16%) 0.67 (0.12) 0.66 (0.15)
    Surgery w/Chemotherapy 264 (11.26%) 0.67 (0.12) 0.66 (0.17)
    Surgery w/Radiotherapy 60 (2.56%) 0.69 (0.15) 0.68 (0.18)
    Chemoradiotherapy 669 (28.54%) 0.66 (0.13) 0.66 (0.16)
    Surgery w/Chemo/Rad 206 (8.79%) 0.65 (0.14) 0.63 (0.22)
    No Treatment 124 (5.29%) 0.70 (0.13) 0.67 (0.17)
        p-value** <0.0001

Comorbidity
    None 409 (17.44%) 0.69 (0.13) 0.67 (0.21)
    Mild 731 (31.19%) 0.68 (0.13) 0.66 (0.20)
    Moderate 402 (17.15%) 0.67 (0.14) 0.66 (0.21)
    Severe 364 (15.53%) 0.67 (0.14) 0.66 (0.21)
    Unknown/Missing 438 (18.69%) 0.68 (0.14) 0.66 (0.19)
        p-value** n.s
*

Mann-Whitney U test

**

Kruskal-Wallis test