Table 4

Relation between topics discussed with cancer counsellors and each outcome (patient)

	Overall satisfaction		Process of counselling		Short-term outcome of counselling		Medium-term outcome of counselling		Long-term outcome of counselling		Independent position of CISC
	Exp(B)	95% CI	Exp(B)	95% CI	Exp(B)	95% CI	Exp(B)	95% CI	Exp(B)	95% CI	Exp(B)	95% CI
Sex (male)	0.89	0.56 to 1.43	0.86	0.54 to 1.37	0.67	0.43 to 1.06	0.75	0.47 to 1.19	0.99	0.62 to 1.58	0.62	0.40 to 0.96*
Age (≥60 years)	0.94	0.59 to 1.50	0.95	0.60 to 1.51	0.97	0.62 to 1.51	1.02	0.64 to 1.63	1.03	0.64 to 1.64	0.87	0.56 to 1.35
Previous experience of using CISC	2.00	1.26 to 3.16**	2.37	1.50 to 3.73***	1.07	0.70 to 1.66	1.64	1.04 to 2.56*	1.03	0.65 to 1.63	1.47	0.96 to 2.23
Immediate access to CISC	4.60	2.96 to 7.14***	5.37	3.44 to 8.39***	6.80	4.16 to 11.11***	7.16	4.14 to 12.37***	6.23	3.51 to 11.06***	3.99	2.60 to 6.12***
About disease or symptoms (1)	1.61	1.01 to 2.58*	2.20	1.37 to 3.53**	0.92	0.58 to 1.45	1.61	0.99 to 2.64	0.80	0.49 to 1.29	1.79	1.15 to 2.81*
About financial problem (2)	0.62	0.39 to 0.98*	0.63	0.39 to 0.39*	1.36	0.87 to 2.13	0.80	0.50 to 1.28	1.32	0.83 to 2.11	0.79	0.51 to 1.22
About social life (3)	0.74	0.39 to 1.41	1.20	0.62 to 2.30	0.81	0.43 to 1.50	1.05	0.56 to 2.00	0.89	0.46 to 1.71	0.59	0.32 to 1.08
About relationship with medical staff (4)	0.77	0.39 to 1.52	1.87	0.89 to 3.95	1.02	0.53 to 1.96	0.86	0.43 to 1.72	0.75	0.37 to 1.53	0.97	0.51 to 1.84
About discharge or homecare (5)	0.76	0.32 to 1.82	0.32	0.13 to 0.77*	1.01	0.43 to 2.35	0.60	0.24 to 1.48	0.76	0.32 to 1.82	0.54	0.24 to 1.24
No specific problem (6)	1.89	0.96 to 3.74	2.45	1.23 to 4.86*	0.73	0.38 to 1.37	1.26	0.66 to 2.41	0.94	0.48 to 1.84	1.83	0.99 to 3.39

*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.
Each of (1) through (6) was added to the analysis independently after controlling for sex, age, patient, experience of consulting with CISC and immediate access to CISC.
CISC, Cancer Information Support Centre.