Need for numbers: assessing cancer survivors’ needs for personalized and generic statistical information

Table 2 Cancer survivors’ needs for personalized and generic statistics (mean and standard deviations), compared for each topic

Topic	Type of statistic ^a		t	df	d	95% CI
Topic	Personalized	Generic	t	df	d	95% CI
Cancer incidence	2.60 (1.05)	2.15 (0.90)	7.25*	173	0.55	[0.34, 0.60]
Survival rate (non-treatment related)	3.38 (0.84)	2.94 (0.94)	7.20*	172	0.56	[0.35, 0.60]
Survival rate (treatment-related)	3.27 (0.95)	2.75 (0.96)	7.96*	169	0.61	[0.42, 0.68]
Recurrence rate	3.26 (0.98)	2.75 (0.98)	8.20*	166	0.65	[0.40, 0.64]
Risk of side effects	3.32 (0.87)	2.94 (0.93)	6.51*	165	0.51	[0.28, 0.50]
Quality of life	3.13 (0.81)	2.69 (0.81)	8.56*	162	0.66	[0.35, 0.54]

^a = Items were rated on a 4-point scale (1 = ‘not at all’, 2 = ‘a little’, 3 = ‘quite a bit’, 4 = ‘very much’); *p < .001

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