Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with lung cancer, and head and neck cancer
| Characteristics | Lung cancer N (％), n=104 |
Head and neck cancer N (％), n=113 |
Total N (%), n=217 |
χ2/ t-test |
P value |
| Gender | 32.17 | <0.001 | |||
| Male | 56 (53.80) | 100 (88.50) | 156 (71.89) | ||
| Female | 48 (46.20) | 13 (11.50) | 61 (28.11) | ||
| Age, years mean (SD) | 61.26 (±10.30) | 52.58 (±10.81) | 56.74 (±11.40) | 6.04 | <0.001 |
| Age demarcated | 24.19 | <0.001 | |||
| ≥50 | 93 (89.42) | 68 (60.18) | 161 (74.19) | ||
| <50 | 11 (10.58) | 45 (39.82) | 56 (25.81) | ||
| Marital status | 4.68 | <0.05 | |||
| Unmarried | 19 (18.27) | 35 (30.97) | 54 (24.88) | ||
| Married | 85 (81.73) | 78 (69.03) | 163 (75.12) | ||
| Education, years mean (SD) | 9.91 (±4.20) | 9.80 (±3.71) | 9.85 (±3.94) | 0.22 | 0.83 |
| Waist-to-hip ratio | 0.91 (±0.07) | 0.94 (±0.06) | 0.92 (±0.07) | 3.10 | <0.05 |
| Unemployment | 73 (70.19) | 55 (48.67) | 128 (58.99) | 10.37 | <0.001 |
| Comorbid with other diseases | 50 (48.08) | 50 (44.25) | 100 (46.08) | 0.32 | 0.57 |
| Alcoholism | 27 (25.96) | 75 (66.37) | 102 (47.00) | 35.50 | <0.001 |
| Smoking | 43 (41.35) | 80 (70.80) | 123 (56.68) | 19.13 | <0.001 |
| Betel nut | 17 (16.35) | 69 (61.06) | 86 (39.63) | 45.26 | <0.001 |
| Operation | 23 (22.77) | 68 (65.38) | 91 (44.39) | ||
| Chemotherapy | 51 (50.50) | 52 (50.00) | 103 (50.24) | ||
| Radiotherapy | 12 (11.88) | 35 (33.65) | 47 (22.93) | ||
| Targeted drug | 42 (41.58) | 0 | 42 (20.49) | ||
| Stage | 10.99 | <0.001 | |||
| Early | 16 (16.00) | 36 (36.73) | 52 (26.26) | ||
| Advanced | 84 (84.00) | 62 (63.27) | 146 (73.74) | ||
| NPRS, mean (range) | 1.81 (0 to 10) | 1.50 (0 to 10) | 1.65 (0 to 10) | 1.06 | 0.29 |
| TDQ, mean (SD) | 7.92 (±5.27) | 6.50 (±7.20) | 7.18 (±6.37) | 1.65 | 0.10 |
| BAI, mean (SD) | 4.22 (±3.96) | 4.02 (±5.09) | 4.12 (±4.57) | 0.33 | 0.74 |
| LTEQ, mean (range) | 0.74 (0 to 4) | 0.84 (0 to 6) | 0.79 (0 to 6) | −0.76 | 0.45 |
| CDRISC, mean (SD) | 30.35 (±6.80) | 30.86 (±6.53) | 30.61 (±6.66) | −0.57 | 0.57 |
| BFI-S, mean (SD) | 2.82 (±2.29) | 2.78 (±2.59) | 2.80 (±2.44) | 0.13 | 0.90 |
| BFI-I, mean (range) | 1.44 (0 to 0.85) | 1.06 (0 to 10) | 1.24 (0 to 10) | 1.59 | 0.11 |
BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BFI-I, Brief Fatigue Inventory Interference subscale; BFI-S, Brief Fatigue Inventory Severity subscale; CD-RISC, Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale; LTE-Q, Questionnaire Version of the List of Threatening Experiences; NPRS, Numeric Pain Rating Scale; TDQ, Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire.