The items assessing sexual functioning included two items to be completed by all patients, two items for completion by men only, and one item for completion by women only; also, there were three items completed by men or women reporting to be sexually active in the past 4 wk.
Specifically, there were more intervention-related items to be completed for patients for whom geriatric teams had identified a greater number of problems.
In order to reduce participant burden, the survey consisted of a main questionnaire (items to be completed by all respondents) and five complementary modules.
The Alice Heim 4 part I test, an inductive reasoning test, consists of 65 verbal and numerical items to be completed within 10 minutes (32).
A questionnaire with 61 items to be completed independently and anonymously was distributed to patients who were in the hospital's chemotherapy or radiation outpatient treatment rooms or who were hospitalized in the Division of Oncology at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel.
It consists of 25 items to be completed by the respondent about their relationships with their father and mother separately, assessing two dimensions of perceived parental bonding: 'care' and 'over-protection'.
For factor and internal consistency analysis by physician specialty, which required all items to be completed, the final analytical sample size was 155, 157, 138, and 106, for the overall treatment experience (hereafter referred to as "overall"), surgeon, medical oncologist, and radiation oncologist scales, respectively.
For factor and internal consistency analysis by treatment modality, which required all items to be completed, the final sample size was 286, 286, 195, and 247, for the overall treatment experience (hereafter referred to as 'overall"), surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation scales respectively.
The primary endpoint was the mean of 9 first FLIE items (at least 5 out of 9 items had to be completed).
