Patients’ Knowledge About and Discomfort During 18F-FDG PET/CT Examination
| Question | Intervention (n = 66) | Standard care (n = 64) |
| Did you know beforehand what an 18F-FDG PET examination was? | ||
| Not at all | 25 (38) | 23 (36) |
| Some | 17 (26) | 26 (41) |
| Quite a lot | 19 (29) | 10 (16) |
| I knew very much | 5 (8) | 3 (5) |
| Did you know beforehand how an 18F-FDG PET examination was conducted? | ||
| Not at all | 22 (33) | 28 (44) |
| Some | 19 (29) | 24 (38) |
| Quite a lot | 20 (30) | 9 (14) |
| I knew very much | 5 (8) | 1 (2) |
| Did you feel trapped during the examination? | ||
| Not at all | 39 (59) | 45 (70) |
| Some | 22 (33) | 12 (19) |
| Much | 4 (6) | 5 (8) |
| Very much | 1 (2) | 1 (2) |
| How exhausting was the examination? | ||
| Not at all | 39 (59) | 35 (55) |
| Some | 13 (20) | 20 (31) |
| Much | 12 (18) | 7 (11) |
| Very much | 1 (2) | 2 (3) |
| Was the examination as you expected it to be? | ||
| Much easier | 11 (17) | 5 (8) |
| A bit easier | 13 (20) | 17 (27) |
| Just as I expected | 36 (55) | 36 (56) |
| A bit worse | 6 (9) | 5 (8) |
| Much worse | 0 | 1 (2) |
Data are number of patients followed by percentage in parentheses.