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Table 1 Participant clinical and socio-demographic characteristics (n = 234)

From: Towards patient-centred cancer care: cross-cultural validity and responsiveness of the Turkish Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale

Characteristics

Measure

Value

Age

Mean (SD)

58.23 (12.45)

 

Median (min, max)

60 (19.86)

Sex

Woman%

73.5

Highest level of Education

 University and above

%

13.7

 Highschool

%

30.8

 Primary school

%

26.9

 No schooling

%

1.7

Marital status

Married/Have a partner

73.1

 

Single or Divorced %

26.5

Have children

Yes%

87.6

Payment for Health

 Social insurance

Yes%

64.5

 Private Health Insurance

Yes%

15.4

Experiencing difficulties in meeting health expenses

Yes%

91.5

Source of Support

 Family members play a role in supporting the patient

Yes%

83.3

 Friends play a role in supporting the patient

Yes%

43.2

 Professionals support the patient

Yes%

1.3

 Civil Society Organizations support the patient

Yes%

82.1

 No need for support

Yes%

1.7

 No support

Yes%

1.7

Source of Comfort

 Feeling Better / Family

Yes%

81.2

 Feeling Better / Friends

Yes%

53.4

 Feeling Better / Social Media

Yes%

14.5

 Feeling Better / Being alone

Yes%

7.3

Comorbidities

Yes%

43.6

 Hypertension

%

50

 Diabetes

%

28.4

 Thyroid

%

6

 Asthma

%

2

 Other conditions:

%

13.6

Disease stage (MV)

 I (relatively small and contained within the organ it started in)

%

6.8

 II (bigger than I but cancer has not started to spread into the surrounding tissues only to lymph nodes)

%

30.3

 III (started to spread into surrounding tissues and there are cancer cells in the lymph nodes in the area)

%

34.2

 IV (metastatic - has spread from where it started to another body organ)

%

18.8

Anatomical Site of Origin of Cancer (Top 7)

 Breast

%

48.3

 Lymph Nodes

%

6.8

 Colon

%

6.8

 Prostate Gland

%

6

 Bronchus and Lung

%

3.8

 Thyroid

%

3.8

 Uterus

%

3

  1. The IPOS total scores were normally distributed (Fig. 1). There were no ceiling or floor effects for the total score or for any of the sub-scale scores (Table 3)