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Table 5 Pilot RCT outcome measures (12-month follow-up)

From: Case management vocational rehabilitation for women with breast cancer after surgery: a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial

 

All

 

Intervention

Control

  

95% CI

  

Outcome

Mean

[SD]

Mean

[SD]

Mean

[SD]

Mean Diff.

Lower

Upper

p value

Primary

          

Sick Leave (Days)

2.9

[4.4]

1.6

[3.6]

3.6

[4.8]

2.0

−3.4

7.3

0.441

Secondary

          

FACT-B [0–144]

110.0

[18.9]

113.7

[18.5]

107.1

[19.8]

6.6

−27.3

14.2

0.510

  Physical (PWB) [0–28]

24.3

[4.0]

25.0

[1.4]

23.8

[5.2]

1.2

−5.6

3.2

0.560

  Social/family (SWB) [0–28]

20.0

[6.1]

21.3

[5.4]

18.9

[6.7]

2.4

−9.1

4.2

0.450

  Emotional (EWB) [0–24]

19.1

[3.9]

19.7

[4.6]

18.7

[3.3]

1.0

−5.3

3.2

0.606

  Functional (FWB) [0–28]

21.3

[5.5]

20.7

[6.9]

21.8

[4.4]

−1.1

−5.0

7.1

0.713

  Breast cancer sub-scale (BCS) [0–36]

25.3

[4.3]

26.9

[4.5]

24.0

[3.9]

2.9

−7.4

1.6

0.184

  FACT-B Trial Outcome Index (TOI) [0–92]

70.9

[10.9]

72.7

[10.0]

69.6

[11.9]

3.1

−15.1

8.9

0.590

FACIT-Fatigue [0–52]

41.2

[9.4]

41.0

[9.5]

41.3

[9.9]

−0.3

−10.2

10.8

0.947