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Table 2 NEQ answers distribution missing data and reliability coefficients for each item (N = 182)

From: Cancer patients' needs during hospitalisation: a quantitative and qualitative study

Item number

Item text

% of Yes

% of missing data

1

I need more information about my diagnosis

40

1

2

I need more information about my future conditions

61

2

3

I need more information about the exams I am undergoing

35

0

4

I need more explanations on treatments

32

1

5

I need to be more involved in the therapeutic choices

30

1

6

I need clinicians and nurses to give me more comprehensible information

32

0

7

I need clinicians to be more sincere with me

20

0

8

I need to have a better dialogue with clinicians

45

1

9

I need my symptoms (pain, nausea, insomnia, etc.) To be better controlled

24

1

10

I need more help for eating, dressing, and going to the bathroom

11

0

11

I need more respect for my intimacy

18

1

12

I need more attention from nurses

13

1

13

I need to be more reassured by the clinicians

34

1

14

I need better services from the hospital (bathrooms, meals, cleaning)

59

1

15

I need to have more economic-insurance information (tickets, invalidity, etc..) In relation to my illness

40

3

16

I need economic help

19

1

17

I need to speak with a psychologist

17

1

18

I need to speak with spiritual assistant

13

1

19

I need to speak with people who have had my same experience

39

1

20

I need to be more reassured by my relatives

12

1

21

I need to feel more useful in my family

28

0

22

I need to feel less abandoned to myself

18

1

23

I need to be less commiserated by other people

19

2