The utilization of formal and informal home care by older patients with cancer: a Belgian cohort study with two control groups

Table 3 The comparison of formal and informal care at baseline between OCP and two control groups

	ONC			OCP			MCP
	n	%	p-value	n	%	p-value	n	%
Formal care	n = 333		0.77	n = 161		< 0.001	n = 350
Users	167	50.2		83	51.6		63	18.0
Non-users	166	49.8		78	48.4		287	82.0
Individual home care service
Home nursing	66	19.8	0.86	33	20.5	< 0.001	14	4.0
Home help services	24	7.2	0.50	9	5.6	0.01	5	1.4
Cleaning help	140	42.0	0.41	74	46.0	< 0.001	49	14.0
Physiotherapist	37	11.1	0.003	5	3.1	0.62	14	4.0
Meals on wheels	26	7.8	0.24	8	5.0	< 0.001	0	0.0
Informal care	n = 331		< 0.001	n = 157		0.86	n = 335
Present	188	56.8		135	86.0		286	85.4
Not present	143	43.2		22	14.0		49	14.6
Formal care + informal care	n = 331			n = 157			n = 335
No care	84	25.4	< 0,001	11	7.0	0.13	38	11.3
Informal care only	80	24.2	< 0,001	66	42.0	< 0,001	237	70.7
Formal care only	59	17.8	0.001	11	7.0	0.06	11	3.3
Informal care + formal care	108	32.6	0.02	69	43.9	< 0,001	49	14.6

OCP were compared to the two control groups with the chi-square test. p < 0.05 denotes statistical significance

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