Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: The Japanese version of the National Cancer Institute’s patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse events (PRO-CTCAE): psychometric validation and discordance between clinician and patient assessments of adverse events

		Total (n = 187)		Cohort A (test-retest) (n = 80)		Cohort B (responsiveness) (n = 100)
Age
	Total	62.4	10.7	63.9	10.6	61.2	10.8
	Male	64.5	9.3	65.7	9.2	63.4	9.3
	Female	59.6	11.8	61.5	12.0	58.1	12.0
		n	%	n	%	n	%
Total
	Male	107	57.2	45	56.3	58	58.0
	Female	80	42.8	35	43.8	42	42.0
Cancer diagnosis
	Breast	25	13.4	12	15.0	12	12.0
	Gastrointestinal	91	48.7	37	46.3	50	50.0
	Gynecological	17	9.1	4	5.0	12	12.0
	Lung	32	17.1	27	33.8	4	4.0
	Head and Neck	20	10.7	0	0	20	20.0
	Other	2	1.0	0	0	2	2.0
Current therapy
	Chemotherapy	185	98.9	80	100.0	98	98.0
	With radiation	30	16.0	9	11.3	21	21.0
Type of therapy
	Adjuvant	61	32.6	26	32.5	33	33.0
	Palliative	126	67.4	54	67.5	67	67.0
Molecular target drug use
	Yes	46	24.6	22	27.5	22	22.0
	No	141	75.4	58	72.5	78	78.0
KPS
	100	44	23.5	31	38.8	12	12.0
	90	124	66.3	43	53.8	75	75.0
	80	15	8.0	2	2.5	13	13.0
	< 70	4	2.1	4	5.0	0	0.0
ECOG PS
	0	74	39.6	37	46.3	34	34.0
	1	108	57.8	39	48.8	65	65.0
	2	4	2.1	3	3.8	1	1.0
	3	1	0.5	1	1.3	0	0.0
Marital status
	Married	135	72.2	57	71.3	72	72.0
	Unmarried	25	13.4	10	12.5	14	14.0
	Divorced	11	5.9	5	6.3	6	6.0
	Bereaved	16	8.6	8	10.0	8	8.0
Education
	High	54	28.9	27	33.8	25	25.0
	Middle	119	63.6	48	60.0	66	66.0
	Low	14	7.5	5	6.3	9	9.0
Employment status
	Full-time	57	30.5	26	32.5	29	29.0
	Part-time	13	7.0	5	6.3	8	8.0
	Unemployed or retired	58	31.0	24	30.0	31	31.0
	Homemaker	35	18.7	18	22.5	17	17.0
	Others	24	12.8	7	8.8	15	15.0
Household
	With family	156	83.4	63	78.8	87	87.0
	Alone	28	15.0	16	20.0	11	11.0
	Institution	3	1.6	1	1.3	2	2.0

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