Table 1 Characteristics of participants (n = 66) and non-participants (n = 34). Presented as frequencies and percentages in parenthesis unless otherwise stated*
Participants | Non-participants | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 66 | (%) | n = 34 | (%) | ||
Age, mean (SD)* | 59 (11) | 62 (12) | .254 | ||
Height, mean (SD)* | 169 (9) | 172 (8) | .111 | ||
Weight, mean (SD)* | 72 (14) | 78 (16) | .085 | ||
BMI, mean (SD)* | 25.2 (4.3) | 26.1 (4.4) | .335 | ||
Waist circumference, mean (SD)* | 91 (12) | 96 (13) | .097 | ||
Sex | |||||
- Men | 18 | (28) | 12 | (35) | .407 |
- Women | 48 | (72) | 22 | (65) | |
Marital status | |||||
- Married/living together | 57 | (86) | 23 | (68) | .027 |
- Single/divorced/widowed | 9 | (14) | 11 | (32) | |
Education levela | |||||
- High school or less | 34 | (52) | 13 | (41) | .279 |
- College/university | 31 | (48) | 19 | (59) | |
Cigarette smoking | |||||
- Smoker | 8 | (12) | 5 | (15) | .716 |
- Non-smoker | 58 | (88) | 29 | (85) | |
ECOG | |||||
- 0 | 49 | (74) | 29 | (85) | .312 |
- 1 | 16 | (24) | 4 | (12) | |
- 2 | 1 | (2) | 1 | (3) | |
Treatment intention | |||||
- Curative | 44 | (67) | 17 | (50) | .106 |
- Palliative | 22 | (33) | 17 | (50) | |
Tumor stage | |||||
- I | 12 | (18) | 4 | (12) | .564 |
- II | 14 | (21) | 7 | (20) | |
- III | 16 | (24) | 6 | (18) | |
- IV | 24 | (37) | 17 | (50) | |
Diagnosis | |||||
- Breast cancer | 35 | (53) | 11 | (32) | .036 |
- Colorectal cancer | 22 | (33) | 10 | (30) | |
- Prostate cancer | 2 | (3) | 2 | (6) | |
- Other | 7 | (11) | 11 | (32) | |
Self-reported moderate-to-Vigorous PA, mean (SD)* (min.wk−1) | 833 (989) | 675 (694) | .414 | ||