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Table 4.

The relationship between caregivers’ characteristics and financial burden of bone marrow transplantation

Types of financial burden of HCT	Education level		Job level		Household size		Household income per month		Having supplementary insurance
Types of financial burden of HCT	Pearson chi-square.	P	Pearson chi-square.	P	Pearson chi-square.	P	Pearson chi-square.	P	Pearson chi-square.	P
Caregivers Savings	1.27^a	0.860	1.96^a	0.915	2.03^a	0.693	9.87^a	0.124	1.73^a	0.405
caregivers’ employment	13.71^a	0.026	1.00^a	0.317	9.08^a	0.155	24.23^a	0.001	1.85	0.606
Selling assets to afford HCT costs	0.49	0.788	4.55^a	0.203	0.42	0.839	7.55^a	0.040	0.01	1.00
Assets Substituted to Cover HCT Costs	2.09	0.368	5.50	0.134	0.60	0.751	0.42^a	0.959	0.04	0.863
Borrow money	0.31^a	0.897	2.29	0.496	1.22	0.574	14.07^a	0.002	1.02	0.390
Get a bank loan	7.97	0.018	2.51	0.472	4.84	0.095	9.88^a	0.012	3.77	0.055
Save on unnecessary living expenses	0.41	0.821	0.18	1.00	2.54^a	0.303	2.44^a	0.477	1.72	0.219
Save on necessary living expenses	1.00^a	0.600	2.37	0.501	1.61	0.441	1.64^a	0.665	0.88	0.367

^aFisher exact test value