Table 1.
Demographical and clinical parameters of patients before operation.
| Parameters | Total | Cohorts | Comparisons between cohorts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMN | CNN | NNC | |||||
| Nursing care | Yes/no | Pre- and post-operative comprehensive | Conventional | None | |||
| Patients | 415 | 105 | 135 | 175 | P value | Df | |
| Gender | Male | 265 (64) | 70 (67) | 80 (59) | 115 (66) | .3591 (χ2-test for independence) | 2 |
| Female | 150 (36) | 35 (33) | 55 (41) | 60 (34) | |||
| Type of cancer | Primary liver cancer | 287 (69) | 80 (76) | 90 (67) | 117 (67) | .1958 (χ2-test for independence) | 2 |
| Secondary liver cancer | 128 (31) | 25 (24) | 45 (33) | 58 (33) | |||
| Age (yr) | 50.55 ± 5.45 | 50.75 ± 5.67 | 49.67 ± 5.08 | 51.11 ± 5.54 | 0.0615 (ANOVA) | N/A | |
| Ethnicity | Han Chinese | 387 (93) | 97 (92) | 127 (94) | 163 (93) | .4007 (χ2-test for independence) | 4 |
| Mongolian | 25 (6) | 7 (7) | 7 (5) | 11 (6) | |||
| Tibetan | 3 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | |||
| Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale score | 69 (74–65) | 70 (74–67) | 70 (75–62) | 68 (73–64) | .0578 (Kruskal-Wallis’ test) | N/A | |
| Self-rating Depression Scale score | 68 (70–65) | 68 (70–66) | 67 (69–65) | 68 (75–61.5) | .1598 (Kruskal-Wallis’ test) | N/A | |
| Overall quality of life score | 57 (60–55) | 56 (60–54) | 58 (60–55) | 56 (61–54) | .051 (Kruskal-Wallis’ test) | N/A | |
Categorial variables are depicted as the frequency with percentages in parentheses.
Continuous linear variables are depicted as mean ± standard deviation with standard deviation (SD) in parentheses.
Score < 50: no anxiety/no depression, 51 to 70: mild anxiety/mild depression, 71 to 90: moderate anxiety/moderate depression, and >90: severe anxiety/severe depression.
Continuous not linear variables are depicted as mean with Q3–Q1 in parenthesis.
All results were considered significant if the P value was <.05.
ANOVA = analysis of variance, Df = degree of freedom, χ2-test = Chi-square test.