Table 1 Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of the Sample
From: Psychometric study of the European Portuguese version of the PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module
Whole sample | Children | Adolescents | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 332 | n = 143 | n = 189 | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | χ 2 Group differences | |
Sociodemographic | |||||||
Sex | χ2 (1) = 4.50; p = .034; Cramér’s V = .12 | ||||||
Male | 174 | 52.4 | 85 | 59.4 | 89 | 47.1 | |
Female | 158 | 47.6 | 58 | 40.6 | 100 | 52.9 | |
Socioeconomic status | χ2 (2) = 2.98; p = .226; Cramér’s V = .10 | ||||||
Low | 186 | 56.0 | 75 | 52.4 | 111 | 58.7 | |
Medium | 111 | 33.4 | 55 | 38.5 | 56 | 29.6 | |
High | 35 | 10.5 | 13 | 9.1 | 22 | 11.6 | |
Clinical | |||||||
Treatment status | χ2 (1) = 0.85; p = .357; Cramér’s V = .06 | ||||||
On-treatment | 161 | 48.5 | 74 | 51.7 | 87 | 46.0 | |
Off-treatment | 171 | 51.5 | 69 | 48.3 | 102 | 54.0 | |
Intensity of treatment | χ2 (3) = 4.59; p = .205; Cramér’s V = .12 | ||||||
Level 1: Least intensive | 12 | 3.6 | 2 | 1.4 | 10 | 5.3 | |
Level 2: Moderately intensive | 112 | 33.7 | 53 | 37.1 | 59 | 31.2 | |
Level 3: Very intensive | 153 | 46.1 | 63 | 44.1 | 90 | 47.6 | |
Level 4: Most intensive | 55 | 16.6 | 25 | 17.5 | 30 | 15.9 | |