Supportive Care Needs following Cancer Treatment: A Comparison of Breast and Brain Cancer in an Australian Cohort

Table 2

Descriptive statistics for subscales of the depression anxiety stress scale, cancer rehabilitation evaluation system-short form and cancer survivor unmet needs measure.

Scales	Statistics
	Breast cancer; (𝑛=85)	Brain tumour; (𝑛=106)
DASS (Md, IQR)
Depression (0–42)	2 (0, 12)	4 (0, 10)
Anxiety (0–42)	4 (2, 8)	2, (0, 6)
Stress (0–42)	8 (4, 14)	6 (2, 14)
DASS group: (𝑛, %)
Depression
Normal/mild (0–13)	66 (77.6%)	85 (80.2)
Moderate/severe/extreme severe (≥14)	19 (22.4%)	21 (19.8)
Anxiety
Normal/mild (0–9)	69 (81.2%)	93 (87.7)
Moderate/severe/extreme severe (≥10)	16 (18.8%)	13 (12.3)
Stress
Normal/mild (0–18)	75 (88.2%)	93 (87.7)
Moderate/severe/extreme severe (≥19)	10 (11.8%)	13 (12.3)
CARES-SF (global scores) (Md, IQR)
Physical (0–4)	0.5 (0.3, 1.3)	1.0, (0.5, 1.5)
Psychological (0–4)	0.4 (0.3, 1)	0.6 (0.4, 1.1)
Medical (0–4)	0 (0, 0.5)	0 (0, 1.0)
Martial (0–4)	1 (0, 2)	0.2 (0, 0.8)
Sexual (0–4)	0.3 (0.1, 0.6)	0.3 (0, 1.5)
Overall (0–4)	0.5 (0.4, 1)	0.6 (0.4, 1.0)
CaSUN (mean (SD), range)
Total needs	13.7 (6.5), 0–31	11.6 (5.9), 0–29
Total “unmet” needs	6.0 (6.3) 0–28	4.1 (4.9), 0–26
Total “met” needs	7.7 (4.6), 0–27	7.3 (4.0), 0–24

CARES-SF: cancer rehabilitation evaluation system-short form; CaSUN: cancer survivor unmet needs measure; DASS: depression anxiety stress scale; 𝑛: total number; Md: median; IQR: interquartile range.