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Univariate analyses for factors affecting truth-telling (n=301)
| Characteristics | Total | Non truth-telling | Truth-telling | χ2 | P |
| † HIA: high-incidence area; LIA: low-incidence area. ‡ Manual workers include factory workers, farmers and unemployed people and mental workers include teachers, doctors and civil servants. § The provincial hospital is directly managed by the provincial Department of Health in China and the municipal health authority directly manages the municipal hospital. ¶ Thirty three patients treated with no operation can’t get clinicopathological TNM stage. | |||||
| Gender | 9.485 | 0.002 | |||
| Male | 197 (65.4) | 102 (51.8) | 95 (48.2) | ||
| Female | 104 (34.6) | 73 (70.2) | 31 (29.8) | ||
| Age, years | 3.306 | 0.69 | |||
| <61 | 95 (31.6) | 48 (50.5) | 47 (49.5) | ||
| >60 | 206 (68.4) | 127 (61.7) | 79 (38.3) | ||
| Area† | 0.013 | 0.910 | |||
| HIA | 190 (63.1) | 110 (57.9) | 80 (42.1) | ||
| LIA | 111 (36.9) | 65 (58.6) | 46 (41.4) | ||
| Education level | 46.863 | 0.000 | |||
| Under-education (less than 9 years) | 183 (60.8) | 135 (73.8) | 48 (26.2) | ||
| Education (more than 9 years) | 118 (39.2) | 40 (33.9) | 78 (66.1) | ||
| Vocation‡ | 19.132 | 0.000 | |||
| Mental workers | 27 (9.0) | 5 (18.5) | 22 (81.5) | ||
| Manual workers | 274 (91.0) | 170 (62.0) | 104 (38.0) | ||
| Family history of cancer | 7.804 | 0.005 | |||
| Positive | 153 (50.8) | 98 (66.2) | 50 (33.8) | ||
| Negative | 148 (49.2) | 77 (50.3) | 76 (49.7) | ||
| Family's yearly income, RMB | 2.082 | 0.353 | |||
| 0–20,000 | 120 (39.9) | 72 (60.0) | 48 (40.0) | ||
| 20,000–40,000 | 143 (47.5) | 85 (59.4) | 58 (40.6) | ||
| 40,000 | 38 (12.6) | 18 (47.4) | 20 (52.6) | ||
| Hospital administrative level§ | 11.066 | 0.001 | |||
| Municipal hospital | 206 (68.4) | 133 (64.6) | 73 (35.4) | ||
| Provincial hospital | 95 (31.6) | 42 (44.2) | 53 (55.8) | ||
| Therapy method | 0.460 | 0.498 | |||
| Operation | 268 (89.0) | 154 (57.5) | 114 (42.5) | ||
| Non-operation | 33 (11.0) | 21 (63.6) | 12 (36.4) | ||
| TNM stage¶ | 15.742 | 0.000 | |||
| Stage 0-I | 41 (15.3) | 12 (29.3) | 29 (70.7) | ||
| Stage IIa-IV | 227 (84.7) | 142 (62.6) | 85 (37.4) | ||
| The attitude of family member | 65.419 | 0.000 | |||
| Disagreement | 159 (52.8) | 127 (79.9) | 32 (20.1) | ||
| Agreement | 142 (47.2) | 48 (33.8) | 94 (66.2) | ||