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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2019 Dec 19;28(8):3927–3934. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-05239-5

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Brazil (n=131) Chile (n=71) India (n=44) Jordan (n=182) U.S (n=300) Total (n=728)
Age, mean (range) 58 (26–81) 60 (28–85) 51 (24–73) 55 (19–84) 58 (21–85) 57 (19–85)
Female, No. (%) 61 (46.6) 44 (62) 26 (59.1) 86(47.3) 144(48) 361(49.6)
Race, No. (%)
 Non-Hispanic White 0 0 0 0 229 (76.3) 229 (31.5)
 Black 0 0 0 0 37 (12.3) 37 (5.1)
 Hispanic 131 (100) 71 (100) 0 0 22 (7.3) 224 (30.8)
 Asian 0 0 44 (100) 0 11 (3.7) 55 (7.6)
 Jordanian 0 0 0 182 (100) 0 182 (25)
 Other 0 0 0 0 1 (0.3) 1 (0.1)
Marital Status, No. (%)
 Single 16 (12.2) 16 (22.5) 2 (4.5) 19 (10.4) 45 (15.1) 98 (13.5)
 Married 85 (64.9) 40 (56.3) 38 (86.4) 139 (76.4) 200 (67.1) 502 (69.1)
  Divorced 30 (22.9) 15 (21.1) 4 (9.1) 24 (13.2) 53 (17.8) 126 (17.4)
Education, No. (%)
 Illiterate or high school or less 114 (87) 21 (29.6) 38 (86.3) 111 (61) 77 (25.7) 361 (49.6)
 Some college up to bachelor’s 16 (12.2) 47 (66.2) 5 (11.4) 58 (31.9) 173 (57.7) 299 (41.1)
 Advanced degree 1 (0.8) 3 (4.2) 1 (2.3) 13 (7.1) 50 (16.7) 68 (9.3)
Cancer, No. (%)
 Breast 26 (19.8) 11 (15.5) 6 (13.6) 40 (22) 48 (16) 131 (18)
 Gastrointestinal 25 (19.1) 26 (36.6) 7 (15.9) 31 (17) 68 (22.7) 157 (21.6)
 Genitourinary 30 (22.9) 6 (8.5) 2 (4.5) 14 (7.7) 25 (8.3) 77 (10.6)
 Gynecologic 16 (12.2) 6 (8.5) 15 (34.1) 7 (3.8) 20 (6.7) 64 (8.8)
 Head and neck 5 (3.8) 0 7 (15.9) 18 (9.9) 40 (13.3) 70 (9.6)
 Hematologic 4 (3.1) 8 (11.3) 1 (2.3) 10 (5.5) 8 (2.7) 31 (4.3)
 Non-small cell lung 0 0 0 0 1 (0.3) 1 (0.1)
 Other 10 (7.6) 6 (8.5) 3 (6.8) 25 (13.7) 39 (13) 83 (11.4)
 Respiratory 15 (11.5) 8 (11.3) 3 (6.8) 37 (20.3) 51 (17) 114 (15.7)
Cancer Stage, No. (%)
 Advanced 0 0 0 8 (4.4) 8 (2.7) 16 (2.2)
 Locally Advanced 23 (17.6) 8 (11.3) 6 (13.6) 9 (4.9) 34 (11.3) 80 (11)
 Metastatic 108 (82.4) 63 (88.7) 38 (86.4) 165 (90.7) 258 (86) 632 (86.8)
CAGE positive, No. (%) 38 (29) 6 (8) 6 (14) 7 (4) 43 (14) 100 (14)
MDAS, mean (SD) 2.5 (1.5) 2.4 (1.9) 2.3 (1.1) 2.8 (2) 1.2 (1.3) 2 (1.7)
KPS baseline, mean (SD) 71 (13) 78 (13) 77 (6) 68 (14) -- --
KPS follow-up, mean (SD) 70 (13) 75 (14) 74 (5) 66 (15) 69 (13) 69 (13)

No KPS data collected from U.S. initial visit