Table 3 Participant responses to the question: How good was the doctor at involving you in decisions about your care, e.g. discussing different treatment options?
From: How do colorectal cancer patients rate their GP: a mixed methods study
Factors | Very good/good | Neither good nor bad/poor or very poor | Doesn’t apply | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 155 | % | n = 24 | % | n = 16 | N = 195 | % | p | |
TDI | ||||||||
<120 days | 69 | 87.3 | 4 | 5.1 | 6 | 79 | 40.5 | 0.168 |
>120 days | 75 | 72.1 | 20 | 19.2 | 9 | 104 | 53.3 | |
Unknown | 11 | 91.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 12 | 6.2 | |
Age | ||||||||
< 60 | 38 | 77.6 | 7 | 14.3 | 4 | 49 | 25.1 | 0.887 |
60+ | 117 | 80.1 | 17 | 11.6 | 12 | 146 | 74.9 | |
Gender | ||||||||
Male | 88 | 80.7 | 10 | 9.2 | 11 | 109 | 55.9 | 0.213 |
Female | 67 | 77.9 | 14 | 16.3 | 5 | 86 | 44.1 | |
Ethnicity | ||||||||
non-Māori | 131 | 79.4 | 19 | 11.5 | 15 | 165 | 84.6 | 0.759 |
Māori | 23 | 79.3 | 5 | 17.2 | 1 | 29 | 14.9 | |
Unknown | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | |
Comorbidity | ||||||||
0–1 | 123 | 78.8 | 19 | 12.2 | 14 | 156 | 80.0 | 0.356 |
2+ | 32 | 82.1 | 5 | 12.8 | 2 | 39 | 20.0 | |