Table 3.
Prevalence of a negative body image among AYA survivors.
| Prevalence of a Negative Body Image | AYA Survivors with a Negative Body Image | AYA Survivors without a Negative Body Image | Item Answered as ‘Not Applicable’ | Missing 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | |||
| Total prevalence | |||||||
| Prevalence of a negative body image (with Q8) | 541 | 14.5 | 3194 | 85.5 | |||
| Prevalence of a negative body image (without Q8) | 548 | 14.7 | 3187 | 85.3 | |||
| Ten items on body image | |||||||
| Q1. Have you felt unattractive? | 391 | 10.5 | 3343 | 89.5 | 1 | ||
| Q2. Have you felt older than your age? | 628 | 16.8 | 3105 | 83.2 | 2 | ||
| Q3. Have you been dissatisfied with your physical appearance? | 603 | 16.2 | 3130 | 83.8 | 2 | ||
| Q4. Have you felt that you could not trust your body? | 554 | 14.8 | 3180 | 85.2 | 1 | ||
| Q5. Have you felt embarrassed about your body? | 297 | 8.0 | 3438 | 92.0 | 0 | ||
| Q6. Did you avoid people because of the way you felt about your appearance? | 96 | 2.6 | 3636 | 97.4 | 3 | ||
| Q7. Did your body feel complete? | 1650 | 44.2 | 2083 | 55.8 | 2 | ||
| Q8. Have you been dissatisfied with the appearance of the scars? 2 | 348 | 9.3 | 3076 | 82.5 | 306 | 8.2 | 5 |
| Q9. Did you judge your physical appearance more negatively since the diagnosis and treatment of cancer? | 482 | 12.9 | 3247 | 87.1 | 6 | ||
| Q10. Have you felt less masculine/feminine as a result of your illness or treatment since the diagnosis and treatment of cancer? | 564 | 15.1 | 3166 | 84.9 | 5 | ||
1 The missing values were not part of the calculated percentages for the ten items on body image. 2 For item Q8 participants could also answer ‘not applicable’.