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Table 3 Psychosocial and work-related factors of prostate cancer survivors at the beginning of the rehabilitation program with regard to work status at 12-months follow-up (N = 711)

From: Return to work in prostate cancer survivors – findings from a prospective study on occupational reintegration following a cancer rehabilitation program

 

Not returned to work 12 months after the end of the rehabilitation program

Returned to work 12 months after the end of the rehabilitation program

 

N = 93

N = 618

 

n

%

M

SD

n

%

M

SD

p-value

Psychosocial well-being, function and symptoms

Anxiety and Depression (HADS)

 Anxiety

93

 

6.2

4.3

616

 

5.6

3.8

.149a

 Depression

93

 

5.4

4.0

617

 

4.8

3.4

.146a

Quality of Life – functioning (EORTC QLQ-C30)b

 Global health status/ quality of life

93

 

48.1

22.4

618

 

53.1

20.6

.032 a

 Physical functioning

93

 

68.2

20.9

617

 

72.9

19.0

.031 a

 Role functioning

93

 

37.1

31.4

615

 

40.6

33.7

.350a

 Emotional functioning

93

 

61.0

27.8

615

 

64.0

24.9

.283a

 Cognitive functioning

93

 

77.1

26.7

616

 

78.6

22.8

.547a

 Social functioning

93

 

50.7

30.0

618

 

56.1

27.7

.083a

Quality of life – symptoms (EORTC QLQ-PR25)c

 Urinary symptoms

93

 

48.2

19.5

615

 

45.7

20.0

.265a

 Bowel symptoms

92

 

10.4

13.1

614

 

8.3

11.4

.141a

 Hormonal treatment-related symptoms

92

 

16.0

13.3

617

 

14.0

12.2

.143a

 Bother due to use of incontinence aid

73

 

47.0

35.9

452

 

42.1

33.5

.249a

Work-related issues and behaviors

Work-related behavior pattern (AVEM)

         

 Healthy ambitious- Type G

25

26.9

  

156

25.2

  

.092d

 Unambitious- Type S

37

39.8

  

196

31.7

  

 Excessively unambitious- Risk Type A

14

15.1

  

112

18.1

  

 Resigned- Risk Type B

16

17.2

  

102

16.5

  

 Unclear

1

1.1

  

52

8.4

  

Work-related issues (SIBAR)

 Self-perceived work ability

 

92

  

615

    

 Not able to work (<  3 h/day)

 

38

41.3

 

124

20.2

  

<.001 d

 Limited ability (3–6 h/day)

 

49

53.3

 

415

67.5

  

 Full ability (>  6 h/day)

 

5

5.4

 

76

12.4

  

 Sick leave in the 12 months preceding rehabilitation

         

 None or up to 5 weeks

55

60.4

  

499

82.3

  

<.001 d

 6 weeks or more

36

39.6

  

107

17.7

  

 Intention to apply for a disability pension (yes)

39

43.8

  

124

20.6

  

<.001 d

 Occupational stress (yes)

22

24.2

  

76

12.4

  

.002 d

 Self-perceived capacity to return to the former job and related working tasks

 Probably or definitely yes

55

59.1

  

532

86.6

  

<.001 d

 Uncertain

23

24.7

  

67

10.9

  

 Probably or definitely no

15

16.1

  

15

2.4

  

Effort-reward imbalance (ERI)

 Efforte

89

 

16.5

5.1

614

 

15.5

4.4

.094a

 Reward

85

 

46.4

7.6

591

 

48.2

6.8

.022 a

 Effort-reward imbalance (cut off ≥1)

12

14.1

  

48

8.1

  

.071d

  1. Abbreviations M mean, SD Standard deviation, p-value probability of type I error
  2. Significant p-values are marked in bold
  3. at-test, two-tailed
  4. bscale 0–100 (100 ≅ maximum level of functioning), symptom scales not included in the presented analyses
  5. cscale 0–100 (100 ≅ maximum symptom burden), functioning scales not included in the presented analyses
  6. dchi-square-test
  7. eanalyses based on the six-item version
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