Table 2 Levels of cancer-related distress (IES-intrusion, n = 108*) as a function of sociodemographic, clinical and psychosocial factors
Characteristics | IES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | n | mean | (sd) | p-value |
age | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   20–35 years | 30 | 5.2 | (6.1) |  |
   36–50 years | 48 | 4.4 | (5.8) | 0.31 |
   51–75 years | 30 | 6.9 | (8.8) |  |
gender | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   male | 58 | 4.6 | (7.0) | 0.24 |
   female | 50 | 6.1 | (6.7) |  |
level of education | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   low | 37 | 6.3 | (7.9) |  |
   middle | 40 | 6.0 | (7.2) | 0.12 |
   high | 30 | 3.1 | (4.5) |  |
actual risk | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   mutation carriers | 29 | 5.9 | (5.8) |  |
   clinical HNPCC | 56 | 5.7 | (7.6) | 0.47 |
   non-carriers | 23 | 3.7 | (6.3) |  |
perceived risk | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   much higher | 32 | 5.2 | (6.2) |  |
   somewhat higher | 36 | 5.2 | (6.0) | 0.96 |
   same | 31 | 4.8 | (6.8) |  |
   lower | 6 | 3.8 | (6.4) |  |
treated for cancer | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   yes | 20 | 7.5 | (6.9) |  |
   benign polyp | 23 | 7.0 | (8.9) | 0.06 |
   no | 65 | 4.1 | (5.8) |  |
professional support | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   ever | 16 | 10.1 | (6.8) | 0.002 |
   never | 91 | 4.4 | (6.6) |  |
involvement in disease process of relative | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   very much | 63 | 6.3 | (6.8) |  |
   quite a bit | 23 | 5.4 | (6.5) | 0.24 |
   a little/not at all | 21 | 3.6 | (7.3) |  |