Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics for Demographics and Disease-related Variables, and Their Associations with Depressive Symptoms (N = 148)
| N (%) | p-value of association with depressive symptoms | |
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| Age (M, SD) | 54.1 (7.39) | .84 |
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| Marital status | ||
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| Married/living as married | 134 (90.5) | .82 |
| Divorced/separated | 8 (5.4) | |
| Windowed | 6 (4.1) | |
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| Annual household incomea | 0.48 | |
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| Less than 30K RMB | 53 (35.8) | |
| B/w 30K and 60K RBM | 68 (45.9) | |
| More than 60K RMB | 16 (10.8) | |
| Missing | 11 (7.4) | |
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| Highest education | .02 | |
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| Below high school | 48 (32.4) | |
| High school | 66 (44.6) | |
| College or higher | 33 (22.3) | |
| Missing | 1 (1.0) | |
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| Employment | .70 | |
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| Employed | 21 (14.1) | |
| Unemployed | 18 (12.1) | |
| Retired | 103 (69.8) | |
| Homemaker | 6 (4.0) | |
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| Insurance | .04 | |
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| No | 3 (2.0) | |
| Yes | 145 (98.0) | |
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| Stage of cancer | .56 | |
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| Stage 0 | 4 (2.7) | |
| Stage I | 40 (27.0) | |
| Stage II | 94 (63.5) | |
| Stage III | 10 (6.8) | |
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| Years after treatment completion | .64 | |
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| Within a year | 32 (21.6) | |
| 1–3 years | 75 (50.7) | |
| 3–6 years | 41 (27.7) | |
Note.
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= Annual household income was reported in RMB (Chinse yuan), the official currency is equal to 0.15 US dollar in January 2016.