Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the study sample
| Full sample (N = 201) |
CCI (n = 96) |
SC (n = 105) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M | SD | n | % | M | SD | n | % | M | SD | n | % |
| Age, years | 50.0 | 10.1 | 54.1 | 10.9 | 55.9 | 9.2 | ||||||
| Race | ||||||||||||
| White | 161 | 80.1 | 74 | 77.1 | 87 | 82.9 | ||||||
| Nonwhite | 40 | 19.9 | 22 | 22.9 | 18 | 17.1 | ||||||
| Marital status | ||||||||||||
| Single, divorced, widowed | 67 | 33.3 | 31 | 35.2 | 36 | 34.3 | ||||||
| Married | 134 | 66.7 | 65 | 67.7 | 69 | 65.7 | ||||||
| Employment | ||||||||||||
| Unemployed/on leave | 116 | 57.7 | 51 | 53.1 | 55 | 52.3 | ||||||
| Part-time | 28 | 13.9 | 14 | 14.6 | 14 | 13.3 | ||||||
| Full-time | 56 | 27.9 | 30 | 31.3 | 26 | 24.8 | ||||||
| Missing | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Education level | ||||||||||||
| Less than college | 66 | 32.8 | 31 | 32.3 | 34 | 32.3 | ||||||
| Completed college | 41 | 20.4 | 16 | 16.7 | 25 | 23.8 | ||||||
| Post-college | 93 | 46.2 | 48 | 50.0 | 45 | 42.8 | ||||||
| Missing | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Cancer site | ||||||||||||
| Ovarian | 126 | 62.7 | 64 | 66.7 | 62 | 59.0 | ||||||
| Endometrial | 28 | 13.9 | 14 | 14.6 | 14 | 13.3 | ||||||
| Primary peritoneal | 5 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.0 | 4 | 3.8 | ||||||
| Cervical | 5 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.1 | 2 | 1.9 | ||||||
| Uterine | 18 | 9.0 | 7 | 7.3 | 11 | 10.5 | ||||||
| More than one type | 6 | 3.0 | 1 | 6.3 | 5 | 4.8 | ||||||
| Time since diagnosis (months) | 3.73 | 1.6 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 4.1 | 1.7 | ||||||
| Stage | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 38 | 18.9 | 22 | 22.9 | 16 | 15.2 | ||||||
| 2 | 26 | 12.9 | 13 | 13.5 | 13 | 12.4 | ||||||
| 3 | 97 | 48.3 | 43 | 44.8 | 54 | 51.4 | ||||||
| 4 | 36 | 17.9 | 17 | 17.7 | 19 | 18.1 | ||||||
| Unstaged/>one stage | 2 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.9 | ||||||
| Missing | 2 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Baseline CARES | 34.4 | 19.9 | 27.7 | 18.1 | 35.3 | 19.0 | ||||||
| Baseline EEQ | 41.3 | 7.0 | 40.4 | 7.1 | 41.7 | 6.9 | ||||||
| Baseline BDI | 13.7 | 7.4 | 13.2 | 6.8 | 14.1 | 7.8 | ||||||
| Baseline IES | 28.6 | 16.4 | 29.6 | 16.3 | 27.7 | 16.5 | ||||||
CCI = Coping and Communication-enhancing Intervention; SC = Supportive Counseling Intervention; CARES = Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System; EEQ = Emotional Expressivity Questionnaire; BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; IES = Impact of Events Scale.