Table 1.

Items of HL-COM and frequency of response options.

			Response Options 1
Item	Content		1	2	3	4	Mean Score
HL-COM1	I was made to feel that it is important for me to understand the information about my disease and treatment.	n a	9	31	113	53	3.03
		%	4.3	14.8	54.1	25.4
HL-COM2	I was asked if I understood all information or documents.	n a	12	47	85	64	2.96
		%	5.7	22.5	40.7	31.6
HL-COM3	Verbal information about my disease and treatment was additionally provided in writing.	n a	25	47	67	68	2.86
		%	12.0	22.5	32.1	32.5
HL-COM4	Terms and abbreviations were explained to me.	n a	18	50	99	41	2.78
		%	8.6	23.9	47.4	19.6
HL-COM5	People spoke slowly and clearly to me.	n a	5	27	94	82	3.21
		%	2.4	12.9	45.0	39.2
HL-COM6	I was encouraged to ask questions if I didn’t understand something.	n a	10	53	78	67	2.97
		%	4.8	25.4	37.3	32.1
HL-COM7	Written materials were additionally explained to me.	n a	15	54	94	43	2.81
		%	7.2	25.8	45.0	20.6
HL-COM8	When signing consent forms, efforts were made to ensure that I understood everything.	n a	6	40	92	68	3.08
		%	2.9	19.1	44.0	32.5
HL-COM9	My results were explained comprehensively to me.	n a	6	37	96	68	3.09
		%	2.9	17.7	45.9	32.5

¹ 1: I disagree, 2: I somewhat disagree, 3: I somewhat agree, 4: I fully agree. ^a Summation of the number of respondents for each item might not equal to 209 since some patients had missing values on single items. The scale was calculated if at least 70% of items (6 items) were answered.