Table 1 Proportion of survivors endorsing each mini-MAC item
Item number | Item description | Original subscale | Applies or definitely applies n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Take one day at a time | Fatalism | 358 (42%) |
2 | Illness as a challenge | Fighting spirit | 374 (44%) |
3 | Hands of God | Fatalism | 405 (48%) |
4 | Giving up | Helplessness-hopelessness | 29 (3%) |
4 | Angry | Anxious preoccupation | 97 (11%) |
6 | At a loss | Helplessness-hopelessness | 40 (5%) |
7 | Devastating feeling | Anxious preoccupation | 167 (20%) |
8 | Count blessings | Fatalism | 664 (79%) |
9 | Worry cancer worse | Anxious preoccupation | 438 (52%) |
10 | Fight illness | Fighting spirit | 454 (54%) |
11 | Distract | Cognitive avoidance | 406 (48%) |
12 | Can't handle it | Helplessness-hopelessness | 52 (6%) |
13 | Apprehensive | Anxious preoccupation | 191 (23%) |
14 | Not hopeful | Helplessness-hopelessness | 111 (13%) |
15 | Nothing to help myself | Helplessness-hopelessness | 44 (5%) |
16 | End of the world | Helplessness-hopelessness | 23 (3%) |
17 | Not thinking helps to cope | Cognitive avoidance | 303 (36%) |
18 | Optimistic | Fighting spirit | 674 (80%) |
19 | Bonus | Fatalism | 548 (65%) |
20 | Life hopeless | Helplessness-hopelessness | 23 (3%) |
21 | Can't cope | Helplessness-hopelessness | 23 (3%) |
22 | Upset | Anxious preoccupation | 250 (30%) |
23 | Beat disease | Fighting spirit | 632 (75%) |
24 | Life is precious | Fatalism | 687 (81%) |
25 | Belief difficult | Anxious preoccupation | 71 (8%) |
26 | Positive effort not to think | Cognitive avoidance | 492 (58%) |
27 | Push thoughts out of my mind | Cognitive avoidance | 385 (48%) |
28 | Anxiety | Anxious preoccupation | 94 (11%) |
29 | Frightened | Anxious preoccupation | 313 (37%) |