Table 2.
Mean score difference with 95% confidence interval (CI) in eating difficulty at 1, 1.5, and 2 years after esophageal cancer surgery between patients with different dispositional optimism levels
| Time (years) | Mean score difference (95% CI) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderately low | Moderately high | Very high | |||||
| versus very low | versus very low | versus moderately low | versus very low | versus moderately low | versus moderately high | ||
| Eating difficulty | 1 | 8 (+0, 17) | 4 (− 5, 12) | − 5 (− 13, 4) | − 4 (− 13, 4) | − 13 (− 21, − 4) | − 8 (− 16, 1) |
| 1.5 | 7 (− 2, 16) | 7 (− 2, 16) | 0 (− 8, 9) | − 3 (− 12, 6) | − 10 (− 19, − 1) | − 10 (− 19, − 2) | |
| 2 | 0 (− 10, 10) | − 7 (− 18, 3) | − 7 (− 17, 3) | − 11 (− 21, − 1) | − 11 (− 21, − 1) | − 4 (− 14, 7) | |
Values marked in bold have both clinical and statistical significance
Mean score difference rounded up to the nearest integer