Table 2.

Spearman correlation analysis of subjective financial distress per question 28 of the EORTC QLQ C‑30 and ordinally scaled patient characteristics

Subjective financial distress -	n	Spearman rho	p	Lower 95% CI	Upper 95% CI
Age	98	−0.138	0.175	−0.328	0.062
Number of persons living in household	98	0.024	0.812	−0.175	0.222
Education	96	0.104	0.313	−0.098	0.298
Net household income	93	−0.221	0.033	−0.406	−0.018
Global health status/quality of life	98	−0.208	0.040	−0.391	−0.010
Degree of direct costs	81	0.250	0.024	0.034	0.444
Relative degree of direct costs	78	0.336	0.003	0.123	0.520
Degree of loss of income	95	0.560	< 0.001	0.404	0.684
Relative degree of loss of income	90	0.573	< 0.001	0.416	0.698

The relative degree of loss of income reflects the degree of loss of income divided by the net household income. The relative degree of direct costs reflects the degree of direct costs divided by the net household income. Italic numbers indicate statistically significant p-values < 0.05

CI confidence interval