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

Fong, Emmanuel Joseph; Cheah, Whye Lian

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/4935107

In the article titled “Unmet Supportive Care Needs among Breast Cancer Survivors of Community-Based Support Group in Kuching, Sarawak” [1], an incomplete version of Table was incorrectly included. The complete version is shown in Table 5.


	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 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
Formal education
Primary education	1.87 (1.60, 2.14)	1.71 (1.51, 1.91)	1.33 (1.11, 1.55)	1.76 (1.57, 1.95)	2.37 (2.06, 2.69)
Secondary education	1.94 (1.78, 2.09)	2.05 (1.94, 2.17)	1.52 (1.39, 1.65)	1.90 (1.79, 2.00)	2.35 (2.19, 2.51)
Postsecondary or tertiary education	1.95 (1.59, 2.31)	2.19 (1.85, 2.53)	1.95 (1.49, 2.41)	2.21 (1.86, 2.56)	3.00 (2.44, 3.55)
value	0.901
Employment status
Unemployed	1.99 (1.68, 2.29)	2.18 (1.93, 2.42)	1.78 (1.46, 2.09)	2.13 (1.89, 2.38)	2.71 (2.34, 3.09)
Employed	1.90 (1.78, 2.03)	1.94 (1.83, 2.05)	1.48 (1.35, 1.60)	1.85 (1.75, 1.94)	2.39 (2.22, 2.55)
value	0.532	0.042	0.081	0.034	0.111
Age at diagnosis (years)
Less than 50	1.87 (1.68, 2.07)	2.10 (1.92, 2.27)	1.67 (1.44, 1.91)	1.97 (1.79, 2.15)	2.53 (2.27, 2.78)
50 and older	1.97 (1.81, 2.13)	1.94 (1.81, 2.07)	1.48 (1.35, 1.61)	1.90 (1.79, 2.01)	2.44 (2.24, 2.65)
value	0.438	0.145	0.151	0.459	0.606
Duration of survivorship (years)
5 or less	2.25 (2.03, 2.46)	2.26 (2.12, 2.41)	1.77 (1.52, 2.01)	2.11 (1.95, 2.27)	2.64 (2.38, 2.91)
More than 5	1.74 (1.61, 1.87)	1.86 (1.73, 2.00)	1.45 (1.31, 1.60)	1.83 (1.71, 1.95)	2.39 (2.19, 2.59)
value	0.000	0.000	0.019	0.008	0.124
Current treatment status
No current active treatment	1.77 (1.65, 1.90)	1.90 (1.77, 2.02)	1.47 (1.34, 1.61)	1.84 (1.72, 1.95)	2.37 (2.19, 2.55)
Undergoing active treatment	2.33 (2.07, 2.58)	2.31 (2.16, 2.46)	1.81 (1.51, 2.11)	2.19 (2.00, 2.37)	2.78 (2.48, 3.09)
value	0.000	0.000	0.020	0.002	0.019
Cancer stage at time of diagnosis
Early stage (Stages I & II)	1.94 (1.79, 2.10)	2.01 (1.89, 2.12)	1.59 (1.44, 1.74)	1.92 (1.81, 2.04)	2.48 (2.30, 2.66)
Later stage (Stages III & IV)	1.92 (1.75, 2.08)	1.94 (1.73, 2.16)	1.58 (1.31, 1.85)	1.92 (1.67, 2.16)	2.42 (1.98, 2.85)
value	0.860	0.627	0.964	0.949	0.752

Bonferroni Post-Hoc Test. vs secondary education, ; Primary vs post-secondary or tertiary education, , vs post-secondary or tertiary education, ; Secondary vs post-secondary or tertiary education, , vs post-secondary or tertiary education, ; Secondary vs post-secondary or tertiary education, , vs post-secondary or tertiary education, ; Secondary vs post-secondary or tertiary education, , of respondents included, , as 3 respondents could not recall their cancer stage at time of diagnosis. Domain mean score adjusted according to .

Accordingly, the sentence “Respondents with primary education level reported a significantly lower domain mean score compared to those with postsecondary or tertiary education level across the domains of physical and daily living (1.71 versus 2.19, ), sexuality (1.33 versus 1.95, ), patient care and support (1.76 versus 2.21, ), and health system and information (2.37 versus 3.00, )” in the Results section should be changed to “Respondents with primary education level reported a significantly lower domain mean score compared to those with postsecondary or tertiary education level across the domains of psychological (1.71 versus 2.19, ), sexuality (1.33 versus 1.95, ), patient care and support (1.76 versus 2.21, ), and health system and information (2.37 versus 3.00, ).

References

E. J. Fong and W. L. Cheah, “Unmet supportive care needs among breast cancer survivors of community-based support group in Kuching, Sarawak,” International Journal of Breast Cancer, vol. 2016, Article ID 7297813, 9 pages, 2016. View at: Publisher Site | Google Scholar

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