Patients’ attitudes towards the cooperation between the primary sector and the Department of Oncology and patients’ assessments of their feeling of not being left in limbo
3 months | 6 months | |||||||||
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Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | |||||||
N | Mean | N | Mean | p value* | N | Mean | N | Mean | p value* | |
Subgroup analyses for sex and age differences. Assessments 3 and 6 months after the introduction of the shared care programme. | ||||||||||
N=number of patients who answered all index/item questions. Questions with missing values were excluded, so the numbers given here are lower than the numbers from the responders (fig 1). | ||||||||||
Mean values range from 0 to 100. Questionnaire scores were linearly transformed to a range from 0 to 100. A high score represents a more positive attitude toward the subjects. Mean values are listed. | ||||||||||
*The values did not correspond to a truly normal distribution but a mean value can illustrate the distribution. The Mann-Whitney U test was applied to detect statistical differences between the control and intervention group. Statistical level of significance 0.05. Asymptote significance (two tailed). | ||||||||||
†The index consists of four questions concerning intersector cooperation. | ||||||||||
‡The item consists of one question concerning the global assessment of intersector cooperation. | ||||||||||
§The index consists of seven questions concerning the care during the period after coming out of hospital.11 | ||||||||||
¶The item consists of one question concerning the global assessment of the care during the period after coming out of hospital. | ||||||||||
Intersector cooperation (all patients)† | 62 | 55.04 | 57 | 64.80 | 0.025 | 62 | 51.71 | 59 | 59.22 | 0.055 |
Global assessment of intersector cooperation‡ | 76 | 56.58 | 69 | 69.57 | 0.004 | 76 | 58.55 | 71 | 63.73 | 0.142 |
Feeling of not being left in limbo§ | 77 | 62.80 | 67 | 67.70 | 0.111 | 77 | 55.58 | 65 | 65.49 | 0.055 |
Global assessment of the feeling of not being left in limbo¶ | 83 | 55.12 | 76 | 61.84 | 0.168 | 83 | 52.71 | 72 | 57.64 | 0.324 |
Intersector cooperation† | ||||||||||
Women | 44 | 57.81 | 34 | 66.91 | 0.095 | 42 | 54.61 | 35 | 61.07 | 0.208 |
Men | 18 | 48.26 | 23 | 61.68 | 0.091 | 20 | 45.63 | 24 | 56.51 | 0.076 |
Global assessment of intersector cooperation‡ | ||||||||||
Women | 55 | 58.18 | 42 | 73.21 | 0.011 | 52 | 62.02 | 43 | 65.12 | 0.565 |
Men | 21 | 52.38 | 27 | 63.89 | 0.137 | 24 | 51.04 | 28 | 61.61 | 0.078 |
Feeling of not being left in limbo§ | ||||||||||
Women | 57 | 63.28 | 42 | 69.22 | 0.118 | 54 | 59.13 | 38 | 65.04 | 0.246 |
Men | 20 | 61.43 | 25 | 65.14 | 0.429 | 23 | 57.30 | 27 | 66.14 | 0.031 |
Global assessment of the feeling of not being left in limbo¶ | ||||||||||
Women | 61 | 56.15 | 47 | 64.36 | 0.127 | 59 | 51.69 | 42 | 55.36 | 0.595 |
Men | 22 | 52.27 | 29 | 57.76 | 0.541 | 24 | 55.21 | 30 | 60.83 | 0.345 |
Intersector cooperation† | ||||||||||
Age 18–49 | 20 | 45.94 | 26 | 63.70 | 0.001 | 23 | 48.10 | 27 | 58.10 | 0.121 |
Age 50–85 | 42 | 59.38 | 31 | 65.73 | 0.328 | 39 | 53.85 | 32 | 60.16 | 0.173 |
Global assessment of intersector cooperation‡ | ||||||||||
Age 18–49 | 23 | 43.48 | 28 | 70.54 | 0.001 | 26 | 54.81 | 30 | 58.33 | 0.469 |
Age 50–85 | 53 | 62.26 | 41 | 68.90 | 0.200 | 50 | 60.50 | 41 | 67.68 | 0.119 |
Feeling of not being left in limbo§ | ||||||||||
Age 18–49 | 23 | 56.68 | 31 | 67.05 | 0.024 | 25 | 54.29 | 30 | 65.48 | 0.031 |
Age 50–85 | 54 | 65.41 | 36 | 68.25 | 0.337 | 52 | 60.65 | 35 | 65.51 | 0.367 |
Global assessment of the feeling of not being left in limbo¶ | ||||||||||
Age 18–49 | 25 | 50.00 | 32 | 62.50 | 0.098 | 28 | 45.54 | 34 | 55.15 | 0.204 |
Age 50–85 | 58 | 57.33 | 44 | 61.36 | 0.450 | 55 | 56.36 | 38 | 59.87 | 0.606 |