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Table 1 Background characteristics of patients in qualitative and quantitative study

From: A patient perspective on shared decision making in stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a mixed methods study

Patient characteristics

 

Number of patients (n = 11) Interviews

Number of patients (N = 76) Survey

  

% (n)

% (n)

Age

<50

9 (1)

0 (0)

50-64

18 (2)

17 (13)

65-74

27 (3)

33 (25)

≥75

46 (5)

46 (35)

Missing

0 (0)

4 (3)

Sex

Male

46 (5)

62 (47)

Female

54 (6)

36 (27)

Missing

0 (0)

3 (2)

Educationa

Low

36 (4)

37 (28)

Medium

27 (3)

38 (29)

High

36 (4)

24 (18)

Missing

0 (0)

1 (1)

Health Literacyb

Low

27 (3)

54 (71)

High

73 (8)

21 (28)

Missing

0 (0)

1 (1)

Treatment

Surgery

45 (5)

22 (17)

SABR

55 (6)

74 (56)

Missing

0 (0)

4 (1)

  1. aLow: primary school, lower level of secondary school or lower vocational training. Medium: higher level of secondary school, or intermediate vocational training. High: higher vocational training or university. bQuestion “How confident are you filling out medical forms yourself” [56, 57]: Low health literacy: patients answered: some of the time, a little of the time or none of the time. High health literacy: patients answered: all of the time, most of the time