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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2018 Jan 31;51:90–95. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2018.01.006

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Sample Characteristics (N=611)

n %
Age (M & SD) 64.9 10.21

Gender Male 318 52.0
Female 289 47.3
Race White 532 87.1
Black 32 5.2
Asian or Pacific Islander 22 3.6
Other 22 3.6
Ethnicity Hispanic 52 8.5
Not Hispanic 552 90.3
Marital Status Single 42 6.9
Married/Living with partner 432 70.7
Divorced/Separated 86 14.1
Widowed 51 8.3
Education Did not graduate high school 26 4.2
High school graduate/GED 68 11.1
Partial college/vocational training 94 15.4
College graduate 181 29.6
Graduate degree/professional training 240 39.3
Treatment Status Active treatment 434 71.0
Off treatment 154 25.2
Disease Stage In remission/not staged 27 4.4
Stage 1 35 5.7
Stage 2 37 6.1
Stage 3 83 13.6
Stage 4 226 37.0
Primary Cancer Gynecological 99 16.2
Lung/bronchus 91 14.9
Prostate 85 13.9
Colon/Rectum 49 8.0
Bladder 43 7.0
Kidney 43 6.1
Pancreas 32 5.2
Past depression Treatment Yes 143 23.4
No 468 76.6
Current depression treatment Yes 98 16.0
No 513 84.0