Table 1. Descriptive information on demographic and clinical characteristics.

		N	%	depression
				M	SD
Demographic variables
gender	male	117	51.5	20.5	9.7
	female	110	48.5	19.9	9.6
marriage	single	38	16.7	21.8	9.6
	Married/cohabitation	179	78.9	20.0	9.7
	Separated/divorced/widow	10	4.4	18.0	9.6
education	Junior middle school or the following	108	47.6	21.5	10.0
	High or secondary school graduated	74	32.6	18.5	9.5
	Bachelor or above	45	19.8	19.7	9.0
Monthly income(yuan)	<1000	88	38.8	21.0	10.0
	1001–2000	66	29.1	19.5	9.5
	2001–3000	37	16.3	20.4	8.8
	>3000	36	15.9	19.1	10.2
Medical payment	Part of public	174	76.7	19.9	9.7
	Medical insurance/self-payment	53	23.2	21.0	9.5
Clinical variables
Disease type	leukemia	149	65.6	20.8	9.4
	Multiple myeloma	28	12.3	19.2	9.2
	lymphoma	50	22.0	18.8	10.6
Disease status	New onset	49	21.6	19.2	10.4
	Relapse/treatment failure	59	26.0	22.0	9.4
	Maintenance treatment	119	52.4	19.7	9.5
Phase of chemotherapy	Not received chemotherapy	7	3.1	20.4	7.4
	Inductive therapy	82	36.1	19.3	10.3
	Consolidation therapy	110	48.5	20.8	9.0
	Maintain intensive therapy	28	12.3	20.4	11.0
Psychological variables score	Mean(SD)
Perceived stress	18.5(5.2)	0	33
Negative emotion	33.8(10.4)	16	64
Positive attitude	26.9(4.2)	13	36
Cognitive avoidance	11.6(2.4)	4	16
Depressive symptoms	20.2(9.7)	1	45

M: Mean; SD: Standard deviation.