Table 1.
Patient demographic and clinical characteristics.
| Treatment | Control | |||
| Characteristic | No. (%) | No.% | χ2 | t |
| Sex | 0.14 | |||
| Male | 21 (32.30) | 23 (35.38) | ||
| Female | 44 (67.69) | 42 (64.62) | ||
| Age, yr | -0.05 | |||
| Mean | 58.04 | 58.19 | ||
| SD | 14.21 | 15.23 | ||
| Marital status | 0.14 | |||
| Currently married | 41 (63.07) | 43 (66.15) | ||
| Not currently married | 24 (36.92) | 22 (33.85) | ||
| Education | 0.03 | |||
| College degree or higher | 32 (49.23) | 31 (47.69) | ||
| Less than college degree | 33 (50.76) | 34 (52.31) | ||
| Primary cancer diagnosis | 0.5 | |||
| Breast | 25 (38.46) | 23 (35.38) | ||
| Lung | 11 (16.92) | 11 (16.92) | ||
| Colon or rectal | 19 (29.23) | 18 (27.69) | ||
| Renal | 10 (15.38) | 13 (20.00) | ||
| Stage | 0.15 | |||
| III | 45 (69.23) | 47 (72.31) | ||
| IV | 20 (30.77) | 18 (27.69) |
| Distress thermometer | Posttraumatic growth | |||||
| Characteristic of the treatment group | No. (%) | χ2 | P | No. (%) | χ2 | P |
| Sex | 0.42 | .837 | 0.174 | .677 | ||
| Male (17) | 14 (82.35) | 13 (76.47) | ||||
| Female (38) | 32 (84.21) | 27 (71.05) | ||||
| Age, years | 0.561 | .454 | 0.105 | .746 | ||
| <40 (3) | 2 (66.67) | 2 (66.67) | ||||
| 40∼50 (10) | 8 (80.00) | 7 (70.00) | ||||
| 50∼60 (30) | 26 (86.67) | 22 (73.33) | ||||
| >60 (12) | 10 (83.33) | 9 (75.00) | ||||
| Education | 0.638 | .425 | 0.248 | .619 | ||
| College degree or higher (30) | 24 (80.00) | 21 (70.00) | ||||
| Less than college degree (25) | 22 (88.00) | 19 (76.00) | ||||
| Type of cancer | 0.219 | .974 | 0.2 | .999 | ||
| Breast (23) | 19 (82.60) | 17 (73.91) | ||||
| Lung (10) | 8 (80.00) | 7 (70.00) | ||||
| Colon or rectal (15) | 13 (86.67) | 11 (73.33) | ||||
| Renal (7) | 6 (85.71) | 5 (71.43) | ||||