The electronic self report assessment and intervention for cancer: promoting patient verbal reporting of symptom and quality of life issues in a randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics for those with an audio-recorded visit (N = 517)

	Study group
	Control		Treatment
	n = 261		n = 256
	n	(%)	n	(%)
Age
< 50	56	21.5	96	37.5
≥ 50	205	78.5	160	62.5
Median (range)	59	(22–87)	55	(22–86)
Gender
Male	142	54.4	123	48.0
Female	119	45.6	133	52.0
Clinical Service
Medical Oncology	144	55.2	151	59.0
Radiation Oncology	87	33.3	86	33.6
HSCT	30	11.5	19	7.4
Working Status
Missing	33	12.6	16	6.3
Not Working	72	27.6	81	31.6
Working full/part time	156	59.8	159	62.1
Cancer Type
Bladder	8	3.1	5	2.0
Breast	70	26.8	81	31.6
Colorectal	21	8.0	28	10.9
Gastrointestinal, not colorectal	47	18	47	18.3
Head and Neck	15	5.7	12	4.7
Leukemia/lymphoma/myeloma	41	15.7	30	11.8
Prostate	48	18.4	49	19.1
Other	21	8	16	6.3
Missing	8	3.1	5	1.9
Stage
0	8	3.1	2	0.8
1	44	16.9	39	15.2
2	60	23.0	67	26.2
3	38	14.6	56	21.9
4	73	28.0	65	25.4
N/A	3	1.1	0	0
Missing	35	13.4	27	10.5
SDS-15 (T2) mean (SD)	27.0 (8.12)		26.6 (7.73)

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