Table 1.

Sociodemographic factors of surveyed women with metastatic breast cancer

	Overall	Stably-working	No-longer-working	Effect size (p-value)
	(n=133)	(n=72)	(n=61)
Age, Mean (SD)	51.5 (8.5)	49.5 (8.3)	54.0 (8.1)	0.55 (p= 0.002)
Time from initial diagnosis of MBC (yr.), Mean (SD)	3.9 (3.7)	3.3 (3.4)	4.6 (4.0)	0.36 (p= 0.004)
Highest level of education (n, %)				0.16 (p=0.20)
Less than college	36 (27.3%)	17 (23.9%)	19 (31.2%)
College graduate	44 (33.3%)	21 (29.6%)	23 (37.7%)
Post-graduate or professional degree	52 (39.4%)	33 (46.5%)	19 (31.2%)
Prefer not to answer	1	1
Household income (n, %)				0.16 (p= 0.36)
$75,000 or less	60 (45.1%)	34 (47.2%)	26 (42.6%)
$75,001–150,000	44 (33.1%)	12 (29.2%)	23 (37.7%)
$150,001 or more	19 (14.3%)	13 (18.1%)	6 (9.8%)
Unknown or prefer not to answera	10 (7.5%)	4 (5.6%)	6 (9.8%)
Race b (n, %)				0.15 (p=0.468)
White	128 (96.2%)	71 (98.6%)	57 (93.4%)
Black	2 (1.5%)	0	2 (3.3%)
Asian	0	0	0
Other	3 (2.3%)	1 (1.4%)	2 (3.3%)
Prefer not to answer	2 (1.5%)	1 (1.4%)	1 (1.6%)
Ethnicity (Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin) (n, %)				0.18 (p=0.169)
Yes	2 (1.5%)	0	2 (3.3%)
No	129 (97%)	70 (97.2%)	59 (96.7%)
Prefer not to answer	2 (1.5%)	2 (2.8%)	0
Life interfered by metastatic breast cancer during past 6 months (n, %)				0.32 (p= 0.001)
Never or rarely	11 (8.3%)	9 (12.5%)	2 (3.3%)
Sometimes	32 (24.1%)	24 (33.3%)	8 (13.1%)
Often	90 (67.7%)	39 (54.2%)	51 (83.6%)

Comparison between “stably-working” and “no-longer-working” groups using t-test for continuous variables and chi-square test for categorical variables; effect size is estimated with Cohen’s d for continuous variables or Cramer’s V for categorical variables.

^aThis represents respondents who did not provide a response, as well as those who selected “prefer not to answer”

^bResponse category permitted more than one selection (e.g., “all that apply”). Thus, column sum may exceed 100%.