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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2016 Aug 3;17(9):1317–1324. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(16)30196-6

Table 2:

Anxiety and depression and quality-of-life questionnaire scores

N Score Change from baseline p* Patients with a score ≥8 Patients with ≥3 point change Patients ≥3 point decrease Patients with ≥3 point increase

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety
Baseline 44 3 (1 to 5) ·· ·· 7 (16%) ·· ·· ··
Month 6 32 2 (1 to 5) 0 (−2 to −1) 0.53 5 (16%) ·· ·· ··
Month 12 22 3 (1 to 6) 0.5 (−2 to −1) 0.86 4 (18%) ·· ·· ··
Final assessment 29 3 (1 to 5) −1 (−2 to −1) 0.14 3 (10%) ·· ·· ··
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Depression
Baseline 44 1 (1 to 5) ·· ·· 2 (5%) ·· ·· ··
Month 6 32 1 (0 to 3) 0 (−2 to −1) 0.11 1 (3%) ·· ·· ··
Month 12 22 2 (1 to 4) 0 (−2 to 1) 0.52 2 (9%) ·· ·· ··
Final assessment 29 2 (1 to 3) 0 (−2 to 1) 0.87 2 (7%) ·· ·· ··
Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Kidney Cancer Index Disease-Related Symptoms
Baseline 44 3 (0 to 14) ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··
Month 6 32 3 (0 to 16) O (−8 to 4) 0.76 ·· 10 (31%) 6 (19%) 4 (13%)
Month 12 22 3 (0 to 13) O (−5 to 1O) 0.52 ·· 10 (45%) 4 (18%) 6 (27%)
Last assessment 28 4 (0 to 22) 1 (−7 to 16) 0.46 ·· 16 (57%) 8(29%) 8 (29%)

Data are median (IQR) or n (%), unless otherwise stated.

*

Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

Scores ≥8 on a subscale are suggestive of the presence of anxiety or depression.

A change of ≥3 points is considered significant.13