Unmet Supportive Care Needs among Breast Cancer Survivors of Community-Based Support Group in Kuching, Sarawak

Table 5

Supportive care needs domain mean scores by sociodemographic and medical characteristics ().

	Mean (95% CI)
	Supportive care need domains
	Physical and daily living	Psychological	Sexuality	Patient care and support	Health system and information
Respondent age
Below 60 years	2.07 (1.89, 2.25)	2.16 (2.01, 2.30)	1.77 (1.58, 1.95)	2.02 (1.87, 2.18)	2.52 (2.29, 2.74)
60 years and older	1.75 (1.60, 1.89)	1.82 (1.69, 1.96)	1.31 (1.17, 1.45)	1.81 (1.69, 1.93)	2.44 (2.21, 2.67)
value	0.009	0.002	0.000	0.038	0.643
Ethnicity
Chinese	1.84 (1.71, 1.97)	1.96 (1.84, 2.07)	1.48 (1.33, 1.64)	1.87 (1.76, 1.99)	2.48 (2.29, 2.66)
Malays and Sarawak indigenous group	2.18 (1.89, 2.47)	2.16 (1.91, 2.41)	1.81 (1.58, 2.04)	2.10 (1.89, 2.31)	2.50 (2.18, 2.82)
value	0.017	0.095	0.028	0.051	0.898
Marital status
Married	1.96 (1.80, 2.11)	2.00 (1.89, 2.11)	1.69 (1.54, 1.84)	1.92 (1.82, 2.02)	2.50 (2.33, 2.67)
Never married/widowed/divorced/permanently separated	1.82 (1.68, 1.96)	2.05 (1.76, 2.34)	1.11 (0.97, 1.25)	1.98 (1.65, 2.31)	2.42 (1.98, 2.86)
value	0.181	0.725	0.000	0.714	0.710
Cohabitation status
Lives alone or with 1 other person	1.86 (1.63, 2.10)	1.92 (1.68, 2.17)	1.42 (1.17, 1.68)	1.92 (1.66, 2.17)	2.40 (1.96, 2.85)
Stays with 2 to 4 other persons	1.96 (1.78, 2.14)	2.03 (1.90, 2.16)	1.69 (1.51, 1.87)	1.90 (1.78, 2.02)	2.51 (2.32, 2.71)
Stays with 5 or more other persons	1.91 (1.66, 2.15)	2.05 (1.78, 2.32)	1.39 (1.13, 1.66)	2.04 (1.78, 2.29)	2.48 (2.13, 2.83)
value	0.827	0.678	0.097	0.555	0.866
Household income
Equal to or less than RM 3000	1.94 (1.73, 2.15)	1.99 (1.78, 2.21)	1.36 (1.18, 1.55)	1.96 (1.75, 2.17)	2.34 (2.07, 2.62)
RM 3001–5000	2.05 (1.87, 2.22)	2.01 (1.88, 2.14)	1.62 (1.46, 1.78)	1.91 (1.79, 2.03)	2.39 (2.19, 2.60)
More than RM 5000	1.70 (1.41, 2.00)	2.04 (1.77, 2.30)	1.73 (1.36, 2.11)	1.94 (1.69, 2.18)	2.82 (2.42, 3.21)
value	0.089	0.957	0.080	0.938	0.050