Anxiety and depression symptoms among women attending group-based patient education courses for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

Table 2 Sociodemographic and medical characteristics of women attending group-based patient education (GPE) course

Characteristic		Respondents (n = 100)		Drop-outs^a (n = 25)
	Category	n	%	n	%	p-value
Marital status						0.083^b
	Married/cohabiting	87	87.0	19	21.8
	Living alone	13	13.0	6	3.3
Children						0.026^b
	Yes	87	87.0	20	21.8
	No	13	13.0	5	3.3
Educational status						0.501^c
	Primary school	11	11.0	1	2.8
	High school	39	39.0	11	9.8
	University	50	50.0	13	12.5
Breast cancer or ovarian cancer						0.451^b
	Yes	26	26.0	5	6.5
	No	74	74.0	20	18.5
FDR and/or SDR died due to BOC						0.643^b
	Yes	83	83.0	20	20.8
	No	17	17.0	5	4.3
Loss of significant others						0.785^b
	Yes	64	64.0	15	16.0
	No	36	36.0	10	9.0
		mean (SD)		mean (SD)		p-value^d
Age, years		47.7 (12.6)		39.9 (8.2)		0.005
Years since received BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation result		5.0 (4.4)		6.3 (3.9)		0.182
HADS anxiety (range: 0–21)		6.1 (4.3)		6.3 (3.8)		0.814

Abbreviations: FDR first degree relative, SDR second degree relative, BOC Breast or ovarian cancer, SD standard deviation, BRCA1 breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein, BRCA2 breast cancer type 2 susceptibility protein, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
^a Drop-outs are defined as having answered on baseline questionnaires and not on the follow-up
^b Fisher’s exact 2-sided mid-p value (calculated from output of chi-square test)
^c Chi-square 2-sided linear-by-linear association test
^d Independent samples t-test

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