Quality of life among French breast cancer survivors in comparison with cancer-free women: the Seintinelles study

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Table 3 Comparisons of proportions of psychometric scale scores between breast cancer survivors and cancer-free women

Characteristics	Breast cancer survivors (n = 722)	Cancer-free women (n = 1359)	Chi²p-Value	Adjusted p-Value^a
Characteristics	N (%)	N (%)	Chi²p-Value	Adjusted p-Value^a
WHOQOL-BREF: Global QoL
Poor or very poor^b	28 (3.88)	58 (4.27)	0.0014	0.3307
Neither poor nor good	131 (18.14)	167 (12.29)
Good or very good^c	563 (77.98)	1134 (83.44)
WHOQOL-BREF: Health satisfaction
Dissatisfied or very dissatisfied^d	113 (15.65)	140 (10.30)	< .0001	0.0019
Neither satisfied nor satisfied	201 (27.84)	197 (14.50)
Satisfied or very satisfied^e	408 (56.51)	1022 (75.20)
Health literacy (HLS-EU-Q16)
Inadequate (0–8)	73 (10.77)	158 (13.87)	< .0001	< .0001
Problematic (9–12)	239 (35.25)	470 (41.26)
Sufficient (13–16)	366 (53.98)	511 (44.86)
Don’t know/ Not applicable	220 (16.19)	44 (6.09)

^aModels adjusted for same variables as in Table 2, footnote a
^b “Very poor”: BCSs: n = 2 (0.28%), CFWs: n = 4 (0.29%); “Poor”: BCSs: n = 26 (3.60%), CFWs: n = 54 (3.97%)
^c “Good”: BCSs: n = 455 (63.02%), CFWs: n = 811 (59.68%); “Very good”: BCSs: n = 108 (14.96%), CFWs: n = 323 (23.77%)
^d “Very dissatisfied”: BCSs: n = 5 (0.69%), CFWs: n = 9 (0.66%); “Dissatisfied”: BCSs: n = 108 (14.96%), CFWs: n = 131 (9.64%)
^e “Satisfied”: BCSs: n = 355 (49.17%), CFWs: n = 744 (54.75%); “Very satisfied”: BCSs: n = 53 (7.34%), CFWs: n = 278 (20.46%)

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