. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 12.

Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2022 Jul 7;30(10):8173–8182. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07270-5

Table 2.

Baseline financial hardship of participants

Financial hardship	Total (n = 23)
Financial worry COST score^*, mean ± SD	10.0 ± 9.6
Financial worry^**, n (%)	20 (77%)
Cost-related cancer care non-adherence, n (%)	1 (4.3%)
Cost-related non-cancer care non-adherence, n (%)	4 (17.4%)
Material conditions, n (%)	8 (34.8%)

For financial worry, COST scores range between 0 and 44, with a higher score representing higher worry

^**

It represents any expression of financial worry to the question: “My Illness has been a financial hardship to my family and me”