Table 1.

Characteristics of patients (N = 18).

Characteristics	Categories	N (%)
Marital status	Married	16 (88.9)
	Divorced	2 (11.1)
Education level	Illiterate	3 (16.7)
	Primary school	9 (50.0)
	High school	4 (22.2)
	College	2 (11.1)
Tumour stage	IIa–IIb	13 (72.2)
	IIIa–IIIb	5 (27.8)
Employment status	Unemployed	13 (72.2)
	White collar	1 (5.5)
	Blue collar	1 (5.5)
	Retired	3 (16.8)
Religion	Yesa	1 (5.6)
	No	17 (94.4)

^aBuddhism.