Table 4.
Participant responses to the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS-r) scale.a
| Participant | Pain | Tiredness | Drowsiness | Nausea | Lack of appetite | Shortness of breath | Depression | Anxiety | Well-being |
| VR001 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | UAb | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| VR002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VR003 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| VR004 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | —c |
| VR005 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| VR006 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| VR007 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| VR008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VR009 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| VR010 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| VR011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VR012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VR013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| VR015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VR016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| VR017 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| VR018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VR019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
aThe questionnaire asks participants to rate cancer symptoms on a 0-10 scale where 10 indicates the worst distress and 0 the least distress.
bUA: unanswered.
cMissing data, which were excluded for the calculation of well-being but response data were included for the other eight symptoms. Pairwise deletion was used to calculate means and SDs, which was only necessary for the missing well-being score for one participant.