Brief Engagement and Acceptance Coaching for Hospice Settings (the BEACHeS study): results from a Phase I study of acceptability and initial effectiveness in people with non-curative cancer

Table 3 Descriptive data for outcome and psychological flexibility at baseline (full sample)

		Full sample		Intervention completers (n = 5)		Non-completers (n = 4) ^d
	Possible score range	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
Quality of life^a
Physical	0 – 28	13.48	6.32	15.2	7.36	11.75	5.06
Social	0 – 28	20.44	5.19	19.68	5.57	21.2	5.37
Emotional	0 – 24	15.35	6.47	13.2	7.01	17.5	5.68
Functional	0 – 28	11.91	5.86	13.06	7.71	10.75	2.87
Palliative specific	0 – 76	59.58	19.70	59.9	16.46	59.25	25.95
Distress^b	0 – 10	4.42	2.40	3.6	3.05	5.25	0.96
Psychological Flexibility^c	0 – 126	83.83	26.42	84.4	35.64	83.25	12.91

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