Table 1 Differences in psychosocial consequences of false-positive mammography in women who had different waiting times until cancer exclusion
From: Waiting time and the psychosocial consequences of false-positive mammography: cohort study
Time until cancer is ruled out | Time of assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Before meeting with the doctor | After cancer had been ruled out | ||||
0 months | 1 month | 6 months | 18 months | 36 months | |
Crude average psychosocial consequences Estimate (95% confidence interval) | |||||
0 days | 22.78 | 9.63 | 7.26 | 5.41 | 6.46 |
(n = 179) | (19.14 to 26.42) | (7.46 to 11.80) | (5.02 to 9.50) | (3.68 to 7.14) | (4.18 to 8.74) |
1-30 days | 27.65 | 12.87 | 8.61 | 7.57 | 4.17 |
(n = 46) | (18.51 to 36.79) | (6.18 to 19.55) | (3.03 to 14.19) | (2.10 to 13.03) | (1.20 to 7.15) |
31-120-days | 20.14 | 5.93 | 5.56 | 3.86 | 5.37 |
(n = 36) | (13.14 to 27.15) | (1.56 to 10.29) | (2.16 to 8.95) | (0.65 to 7.06) | (0 to 11.41)† |
>120 days | 21.00 | 9.29 | 1.00 | 9.20 | 2.44 |
(n = 11) | (4.76 to 37.24) | (3.24 to 15.33) | (0 to 2.96)† | (0 to 23.38)† | (0.59 to 4.30) |
Adjusted average difference compared with women who waited 0 days* Estimate (95% confidence interval) | |||||
1-30 days | 2.23 | 0.42 | −1.71 | −0.08 | −2.67 |
(-6.43 to 10.9) | (-4.39 to 5.23) | (-5.8 to 2.37) | (-3.83 to 3.67) | (-7.3 to 1.95) | |
31-120-days | −4.44 | −3.90 | −1.93 | −1.35 | −1.58 |
(-13.38 to 4.51) | (-10.7 to 2.9) | (-6.88 to 3.03) | (-5.72 to 3.02) | (-7.12 to 3.96) | |
>120 days | −1.90 | −0.14 | −5.75 | 3.59 | −3.67 |
(-15.81 to 12) | (-9.75 to 9.46) | (-16.69 to 5.19) | (-4.82 to 12.01) | (-11.77 to 4.42) | |