Table 2 Differences in the impact of cancer, coping strategies, social support, quality of life, and shared decision making by type of cancer, — colon or breast — in patients who went to the Medical Oncology department to consider adjuvant treatment
TOTAL (n = 497) | Colon cancer (n = 266) | Breast cancer (n = 231) | t | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Psychological distress (BSI-18)a | 63.5 (6.8) | 62.4 (6.5) | 64.9 (6.9) | −3.903 | 0.001 |
Anxiety | 61.9 (7.7) | 60.8 (7.4) | 63.2 (5.7) | −3.218 | 0.001 |
Depression | 60.4 (5.9) | 59.5 (5.7) | 61.4 (6.1) | −3.400 | 0.011 |
Somatization | 60.8 (6.7) | 59.9 (6.3) | 61.8 (6.9) | −2.978 | 0.003 |
Coping with cancer (M-MAC)b | |||||
Adaptive | 65.7 (17.3) | 65.7 (17.3) | 66.6 (14.7) | −0.595 | 0.552 |
Fighting spirit | 78.8 (17.7) | 78.5 (17.6) | 79.1 (17.7) | −0.385 | 0.701 |
Cognitive Avoidance | 52.3 (25.9) | 51.6 (26.3) | 53.1 (25.3) | −0.625 | 0.532 |
Fatalism | 67.2 (18.9) | 66.9 (20.1) | 67.5 (17.5) | −0.311 | 0.756 |
Maladaptive | 32.6 (39.4) | 30.2 (19.2) | 30.10 (18.8) | 0.108 | 0.914 |
Helplessness | 18.2 (18.2) | 19.3 (18.6) | 16.7 (17.7) | 1.479 | 0.140 |
Anxious preoccupation | 42.1 (25.5) | 41.1 (25.4) | 43.3 (25.7) | −0.893 | 0.372 |
Social support (MPSS)c | |||||
Family | 25.7 (3.5) | 26.2 (2.9) | 25.2 (4.1) | 3.089 | 0.002 |
Friends | 23.6 (4.8) | 22.9 (5.1) | 24.8 (4.3) | −3.672 | 0.001 |
Significant other | 25.6 (3.8) | 25.8 (3.7) | 25.4 (3.9) | 1.106 | 0.269 |
Quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30)b | |||||
Functional scale | 82.6 (11.3) | 83.6 (11.1) | 81.3 (11.4) | −2.183 | 0.030 |
Symptom scale | 82.7 (11.7) | 84.1 (10.5) | 80.9 (12.8) | −2.829 | 0.005 |
Health status Scale | 56.8 (19.7) | 56.6 (19.3) | 57.1 (20.3) | −0.155 | 0.877 |
General quality of life scale | 74.4 (12.4) | 74.3 (12.2) | 74.1 (12.7) | 0.466 | 0.642 |
Shared Decision Making (SDM)b | |||||
Physician (SDM-Q-Doc) | 91.3 (9.1) | 91.8 (8.5) | 90.7 (90.8) | 1.296 | 0.196 |
Patient (SDM-Q-9) | 82.2 (19.3) | 84.5 (17.8) | 77.8 (20.7) | 2.938 | 0.003 |