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Table 1 Sociodemographic variables, illness severity, Brief Impairment Scale-Child (BIS-C), Brief Impairment Scale-Parent (BIS), Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test (RIST), and NIH Examiner

From: Self-reported and parent proxy reported functional impairment among pediatric cancer survivors and controls

 

Controls (n = 53) Mean (SD)

Cancer Survivors (n = 26) Mean (SD)

p-value

Child age (Years)

9.94 (3.64)

12.35 (3.99)

.009**

Child sex (Male)

53%

50%

.813

SES (Barrett score)a

37.19 (10.61)

33.47 (10.83)

.150

Child Ethnicity b

  

.155

 Hispanic

45%

46%

 

 White

23%

27%

 

Receiving SSI c

6%

8%

.727

Treatment Intensity d

N/A

1.42 (0.99)

 

Time since end of treatment (years)

N/A

6.35 (3.62)

 

RISTf

 Total Index IQ

98.68 (13.58)

99.27 (12.88)

.854

 Guess What

45.53 (11.85)

47.46 (10.00)

.476

 Odd-Item-Out

51.35 (10.36)

50.62 (9.27)

.709

BIS-Child

 School

3.97 (2.85)

3.19 (2.98)

.264

 Interpersonal

5.47 (3.75)

4.29 (3.84)

.199

 Self

4.94 (2.75)

4.81 (2.40)

.831

 Total

14.38 (6.18)

12.29 (7.16)

.184

BIS-Parent e

 School

2.63 (2.70)

2.69 (3.03)

.822

 Interpersonal

2.45 (2.18)

2.23 (2.27)

.985

 Self

3.08 (2.61)

2.92 (2.95)

.690

 Total

8.16 (6.13)

7.85 (6.28)

.979

NIH Examiner g

 Verbal Fluency Total

21.48 (9.08)

26.04 (8.85)

.038*

 Unstructured Task Total

15.40 (7.24)

19.08 (8.33)

.047*

 Unstructured Task Weighted Composite h

−6.53 (1.46)

−6.48 (2.08)

.905

 CPT Targets Correct

72.69 (18.60)

77.65 (6.01)

.190

 CPT Target Errors

1.83 (2.88)

1.96 (5.52)

.888

 N-Back Score

1.61 (0.68)

1.78 (0.77)

.358

 Set Shifting Score

6.68 (1.15)

7.08 (1.20)

.170

 Executive Composite

−0.42 (5.33)

1.70 (6.43)

.134

  1. aBarratt Simplified Measure of Social Status; Raw Score Range: 8–66
  2. bEthnicity: Hispanic and Non-Hispanic
  3. cSSI: Supplemental Security Income; Percent yes
  4. dTreatment Intensity (range 0–3)
  5. eBIS: Brief Impairment Scale raw (0–69)
  6. fReynolds Intellectual Screening Test. Composite IQ is standard score; Guess What and Odd-Item-Out scores are T-scores
  7. gNIH Examiner raw scores
  8. hWeighted composite = UTpct*log10(UTTotal+ 1; UTpct = percentage of completed puzzles that were considered high value items; UTTotal = total number of points earned)
  9. *p < .05, ** p < .01, ***p < .001