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Table 4.

Results on influencing, measuring, and perceiving a life-threatening illness

Quant. data (pragmatic rando-mized controlled trial)	Quant. categories	Pillar theme	Qual. categories	Qual. codes (qualitative semi-structured interviews)
Patients identified a median of 8.0 distress issues at t0 (MCA: median, 8.0; standard oncological care: median, 9.0) and at 3-month follow-up a median of 4.0 issues (MCA: median, 4.0; standard oncological care: median, 5.0) on the distress problem list Depression and anxiety as measured with the four-item PHQ-4 did not show differences between the treatment groups The SEIQoL quality-of-life index score showed a similar quality of life in both patient groups	There were no statistically significant differences between groups concerning distress, quality of life, or mood (anxiety/depression)	Living with a life-threatening illness	Seeking to have hope, staying positive, and having a normal life	“I have a positive attitude towards my illness, I don´t see it negatively.” (Patient 1) “Sometimes I feel like not wishing to talk about my illness. Normal life is much more important to me.” (Patient 2) “Because I really thought: they give me that (the chemotherapy) and then everything (the tumor) goes away. But obviously it doesn´t work that way.” (Patient 10)

Quant. data (pragmatic rando-mized controlled trial)

Quant. categories

Pillar theme

Qual. categories

Qual. codes (qualitative semi-structured interviews)

Patients identified a median of 8.0 distress issues at t0 (MCA: median, 8.0; standard oncological care: median, 9.0) and at 3-month follow-up a median of 4.0 issues (MCA: median, 4.0; standard oncological care: median, 5.0) on the distress problem list

Depression and anxiety as measured with the four-item PHQ-4 did not show differences between the treatment groups

The SEIQoL quality-of-life index score showed a similar quality of life in both patient groups

There were no statistically significant differences between groups concerning distress, quality of life, or mood (anxiety/depression)

Living with a life-threatening illness

Seeking to have hope, staying positive, and having a normal life

“I have a positive attitude towards my illness, I don´t see it negatively.” (Patient 1)

“Sometimes I feel like not wishing to talk about my illness. Normal life is much more important to me.” (Patient 2)

“Because I really thought: they give me that (the chemotherapy) and then everything (the tumor) goes away. But obviously it doesn´t work that way.” (Patient 10)

Quant. = quantitative; Qual. = qualitative