Comparing Health-Related Quality of Life of Cancer Patients under Chemotherapy and of Their Caregivers

Table 3

Patients’ and caregivers’ EQ-5D dimension scores.

	Patients	Caregivers
	𝑁(%)	𝑁(%)
Mobility
No difficulties	137 (64.6)	201 (94.8)
Some difficulties	68 (32.1)	11 (5.2)
Extreme difficulties	7 (3.3)	0 (0)
𝑃	𝜒^2=60.24; df=2; 𝑃<0.001
Self-care
No difficulties	171 (80.7)	210 (99.1)
Some difficulties	34 (16.0)	2 (0.9)
Extreme difficulties	7 (3.3)	0 (0)
𝑃	𝜒^2=39.43; df=2; 𝑃<0.001
Usual activities
No difficulties	105 (49.5)	196 (92.5)
Some difficulties	89 (42.0)	16 (7.5)
Extreme difficulties	18 (8.5)	0 (0)
𝑃	𝜒^2=96.26; df=2; 𝑃<0.001
Pain/discomfort
No difficulties	99 (46.7)	173 (81.6)
Some difficulties	88 (41.5)	38 (17.9)
Extreme difficulties	25 (11.8)	1 (0.5)
𝑃	𝜒^2=62.13; df=2; 𝑃<0.001
Anxiety/depression
No difficulties	55 (25.9)	42 (19.8)
Some difficulties	122 (57.5)	127 (59.9)
Extreme difficulties	35 (16.5)	43 (20.3)
𝑃	𝜒^2=2.76; df=2; 𝑃=0.259

df: degrees of freedom.