Table 2.
Bivariant analysis of risk factors associated with depression.
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| CDE | No CDE | P value | CDE | No CDE | P value | ||
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| n = 56 | n = 60 | n = 56 | n = 60 | ||||
| Age in years: | Sex: | ||||||
| <40 | 50% | 50% | 0.756 | Female | 63.8% | 36.2% | 0.006 |
| 40–60 | 50% | 50% | Male | 37.7% | 62.3% | ||
| >60 | 41.7% | 48.3% | |||||
| Familial situation: | Patient’s estimation of his pathology: | ||||||
| Married | 48.2% | 51.8% | 0.904 | 0.04 | |||
| unmarried | 49.2% | 50.8% | curable | 44,6% | 55.4% | ||
| incurable | 65,5% | 34.5% | |||||
| Educational level: | |||||||
| None | 48.9% | 51.1% | 0.954 | ||||
| Medium/Hight | 48.4% | 51.6% | |||||
| Socio-economic level | |||||||
| Low | 52.2% | 47.8% | 0.474 | ||||
| Medium/high | 46.3% | 53.7% | |||||
| Diagnosis: | |||||||
| Leukemia | 44.4 | 55.6 | 0.9 | ||||
| Lymphoma | 64.7 | 35.3 | |||||
| Multiple myeloma | 71.4 | 28.6 | |||||
| Treatment | |||||||
| IV Chemotherapy | 45.7% | 54.3% | 0.35 | ||||
| Oral chemotherapy | 55.6% | 44.4% | |||||
| Bone marrow transplantation | 83.3% | 16.7% | |||||
| Other treatment | 34.1% | 65.9% | |||||
CDE: Characterized depressive episode.