Outcomes According to Maintenance Therapy Modalities
| Variable | Category | Total (N = 197) |
Maintenance therapy modality | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous (n = 133) |
Non-continuous (n = 64) |
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| Overall satisfaction | Very dissatisfied | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.454 |
| Dissatisfied | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Neither dissatisfied or satisfied | 49 (24.9) | 33 (24.8) | 16 (25.0) | ||
| Satisfied | 104 (52.8) | 67 (50.4) | 37 (57.8) | ||
| Very satisfied | 44 (22.3) | 33 (24.8) | 11 (17.2) | ||
| Symptom control | Very dissatisfied | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.8) | 1 (1.6) | < 0.001 |
| Dissatisfied | 2 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (3.1) | ||
| Neither dissatisfied or satisfied | 46 (23.4) | 32 (24.1) | 14 (21.9) | ||
| Satisfied | 100 (50.8) | 64 (48.1) | 36 (56.3) | ||
| Very satisfied | 47 (23.9) | 36 (27.1) | 11 (17.2) | ||
| Convenience | Very inconvenient | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | < 0.001 |
| Inconvenient | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.6) | ||
| Neither inconvenient or convenient | 43 (21.8) | 34 (25.6) | 9 (14.1) | ||
| Convenient | 99 (50.3) | 57 (42.9) | 42 (65.6) | ||
| Very convenient | 54 (27.4) | 42 (31.6) | 12 (18.8) | ||
| Preference | Very dissatisfied | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.003 |
| Dissatisfied | 5 (2.5) | 2 (1.5) | 3 (4.7) | ||
| Neither dissatisfied or satisfied | 57 (28.9) | 41 (30.8) | 16 (25.0) | ||
| Satisfied | 97 (49.2) | 64 (48.1) | 33 (51.6) | ||
| Very satisfied | 38 (19.3) | 26 (19.6) | 12 (18.8) | ||
aChi-square test.
bFisher’s exact test.
Data are presented as n (%).