Mental adjustment to cancer and its relation to anxiety, depression, HRQL and survival in patients with laryngeal cancer - A longitudinal study

Table 2 Mean values, SD and range of scores for Mini-MAC domains one month and 12 months after start of treatment

	Baseline		Follow-up		Change	Baseline
	Mean (SD)	Range	Mean (SD)	Range	p-value^†	Cronbach's alpha
AP total*	14.15 (5.09)	8-29	12.28 (4.07)	8-26	0.01	0.85
AP mean**	1.77 (0.64)	1-3.63	1.54 (0.51)	1-3.25
CA total*	10.52 (3.34)	4-16	10.94 (3.07)	4-16	ns	0.74
CA mean**	2.63 (0.84)	1-4	2.74 (0.77)	1-4
FA total*	13.53 (2.99)	5-20	12.87 (3.09)	7-20	0.01	0.61
FA mean**	2.71 (0.60)	1-4	2.57 (0.62)	1.4-4
FS total*	12.15 (2.58)	4-16	11.76 (2.57)	7-16	ns	0.50
FS mean**	3.04 (0.64)	1-4	2.94 (0.64)	1.75-4
HH total*	9.97 (3.19)	8-28	9.76 (3.56)	8-5	ns	0.81
HH mean**	1.25 (0.40)	1-3.5	1.22 (0.44)	1-3.13

AP = Anxious Preoccupation, CA = Cognitive Avoidance, FA = Fatalism, FS = Fighting Spirit, HH = Helpless-Hopeless
*Min-Max scores of AP 8-32; CA 4-16; FA 5-20; FS 4-16;HH 8-32
**Min-Max 1-4 (mean computed by dividing total sum with number of items)
^† p-value significant at ≤0.05
ns = not significant, Wilcoxon's signed rank test
Number of false significances is calculated to 0.16.

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