Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 4 Cancer Worry Questionnaire Response Distributions, Means, and Standard Deviations by Survivor Status

From: Assessment of Survivor Concerns (ASC): A newly proposed brief questionnaire

	Cancer Worry Subscale						Health Worry Subscale
	Future Tests		New Cancer		Recurrence		Death		Health		Children's Health
	n	%	n	%	N	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Short-term
1-Not at all	169	28.5	148	25.0	163	27.5	418	70.6	290	49.0	313	52.9
2-A little bit	103	17.4	107	18.1	110	18.6	116	19.6	194	32.8	105	17.7
3-Somewhat	108	18.2	107	18.1	102	17.2	28	4.7	75	12.7	37	6.3
4-Very much	186	31.4	201	34.0	196	33.1	13	2.2	19	3.2	24	4.1
No Response	26	4.4	29	4.9	21	3.5	17	2.9	14	2.4	113	19.1
Mean/S.D.	2.55	1.20	2.64	1.18	2.58	1.19	1.37	0.68	1.69	0.82	1.52	0.84
Long-term
1-Not at all	38	23.6	32	19.9	39	24.2	116	72.0	70	43.5	72	44.7
2-A little bit	33	20.5	32	19.9	30	18.6	30	18.6	55	34.2	32	19.9
3-Somewhat	39	24.2	36	22.4	34	21.1	7	4.3	23	14.3	25	15.5
4-Very much	47	29.2	57	35.4	57	35.4	5	3.1	12	7.5	5	3.1
No Response	4	2.5	4	2.5	1	0.6	3	1.9	1	0.6	27	16.8
Mean/S.D.	2.61	1.11	2.75	1.12	2.69	1.16	1.37	0.72	1.86	0.93	1.72	0.90
Total Sample
1-Not at all	207	27.5	180	23.9	201	26.7	534	70.9	360	47.8	385	51.1
2-A little bit	136	18.1	139	18.5	140	18.6	146	19.4	249	33.1	137	18.2
3-Somewhat	148	19.7	143	19.0	137	18.2	35	4.6	98	13.0	62	8.2
4-Very much	232	30.8	258	34.3	253	33.6	18	2.4	31	4.1	29	3.9
No Response	30	4.0	33	4.4	22	2.9	20	2.7	15	2.0	140	18.6
Mean/S.D.	2.56	1.18	2.67	1.17	2.60	1.19	1.37	0.69	1.73	0.85	1.57	0.86

For the response distributions for each item, the number of people (n) is shown on the left-hand side and the percentage (%) on the right. For the means and standard deviations (S.D.), the mean is on the left and the standard deviation is on the right.

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