Table 2.
Differences in demographic and clinical characteristics between oncology patients with (n=69) and without pain (n=113)
| Characteristic | Pain Mean (SD) |
No pain Mean (SD) |
Statistics (t-test, p-value) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 58.1 (12.6) | 61.8 (11.5) | t = −2.06, p = .041 |
| Education (years) | 16.1 (2.8) | 16.0 (3.0) | t = .17, p = .867 |
| Karnofsky Performance Status score | 87.1 (12.6) | 92.8 (10.6) | t = −3.20, p = .002 |
| Weight (pounds) | 183.3 (46.8) | 179.1 (36.2) | t = .64, p = .527 |
| Number of comorbidities | 5.8 (2.2) | 4.2 (2.5) | t = 4.20, p < .0001 |
| Time since diagnosis (months) | 5.9 (6.2) | 7.3 (10.9) | t = −1.00, p = .320 |
| % | % | Fisher’s Exact Test p-value | |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 60.9 | 39.8 | .006 |
| Male | 39.1 | 60.2 | |
| Lives alone | |||
| Yes | 26.1 | 31.9 | .504 |
| No | 73.9 | 68.1 | |
| Ethnicity | |||
| White | 71.6 | 72.6 | 1.00 |
| Non-White | 28.4 | 27.4 | |
| Marital status | |||
| Married/partnered | 50.7 | 60.7 | .214 |
| Other | 49.3 | 39.3 | |
| Employed | |||
| Yes | 37.9 | 49.1 | .162 |
| No | 62.1 | 50.9 | |
| Have children at home | |||
| Yes | 21.3 | 16.2 | .409 |
| No | 78.7 | 83.8 | |
| Diagnosis | |||
| Breast cancer | 55.2 | 33.7 | |
| Prostate cancer | 30.4 | 54.0 | χ2 = 14.30, p = .003 |
| Brain cancer | 4.3 | 8.8 | |
| Lung cancer | 10.1 | 3.5 | |