Trial Outcomes & Findings for Understanding the Post-Surgical Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient's Symptom Experience (NCT NCT03724331)

Prospective participants were contacted in the cardiothoracic surgeon's office and informed about the availability of the study. They were provided with contact information and gave consent to be contacted for enrolling in the study.

Participants went through the consenting process and were given time, if requested, to consider further participation prior to initial assessments.

Understanding the Post-Surgical Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient's Symptom Experience

The Brief Fatigue Inventory measured the degree of cancer-related fatigue severity on an 11-point scale (0-10, 10 = most severe)

This is a times and measured test to determine the number of meters a participant can walk in 6 minutes. Lower values indicate greater fatigability.

The MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) Severity subscale measures the severity of multiple symptoms in daily life on an 11-point scale (0-10, 10 = most severe).

A persons's perception of ability to manage fatigue on an 11-point scale (0-10, 10 = very certain)

A person's perception to complete incremental 5-minute periods of walking using an 11-point scale (0-10; 0 = 0% confident to 10 = 100% confident). No walking periods are actually performed. This measures their confidence in their ability to perform walking for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes etc. up to 60 minutes. Scores are an average across all 12 intervals. Higher scores indicate higher confidence to walk for longer periods.

A person's perception of balance during every day activities using an 11-point scale (0-10; 0=0% confident, 10 = 100% confident)

Performance in average number of walking steps taken per day per week. Measured by a pedometer.

SF36 Health \& Well-Being - Physical Component Score. The SF36 measures performance of daily mental and physical activities that people do in the normal course of their lives measured with eight subscales that focus on the physical and mental health components producing normative scores (0-100, 100 = higher functional status). Items are weighted per developer-provided scalars, averaged, and transformed into a 0-100 scale. In norm-based scoring (provided here), a score of 50 represents the population average, with 10 points representing one standard deviation. Lower scores reflect greater physical limitations and pain, while higher scores indicate better, more functional physical health.

Total scores reported from the Quality of Life Index - CANCER III Versions. Satisfaction with various aspects of life (33 aspects) and the importance of each aspect of life to the person using a 6 point-rating scale (1-6, 6 = very satisfied and very important). Total scores are an averaged combination of each aspect's satisfaction and importance using a formula provided by the developer; total scores can range from 0 (very low quality of life) to 30 (very high quality of life).