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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Lung Cancer. 2017 Mar 2;18(5):497–503. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.02.008

Table 1:

Participant Characteristics at Diagnosis by Emotional Problems (N=2205)

Not at All % (N=720) Slightly % (N=844) Moderately % (N=422) Quite a Lot % (N=190) Extremely % (N=29) p value
Age at diagnosis (yrs± SD ) 68.8 (9.9) 65.6 (10.8) 65.9 (10.2) 66.2 (10.6) 60.4 (10.8) <0.0001
Male 57.9 52.8 55.2 44.8 35.7 <0.005
Married 73.7 77.0 73.7 76.3 81.8 ns
Employed 65.7 61.5 74.2 75.7 72.4 <0.001
Smoking Status 0.0005
 Current 25.1 29.6 32.9 39.9 46.4
 Former 61.8 54.7 50.6 48.6 46.4
 Never 13.1 15.6 16.5% 11.5 7.1
Pack Years 46.1 43.5 49.9 47.7 51.6 <0.05
Stage <0.0001
 1 47.4 38 25 25.2 26.3
 2 8.9 6.5 9.3 4.7 0
 3 23.2 29.3 32.2 32.7 41.2
 4 20.5 26.3 33.5 37.4 31.6
ECOG Performance Score
 0 52.5 34.6 15.8 16.7 3.7
 1 42.4 55 59.2 45.7 51.9
 2 4.2 8.3 21.1 24.2 37
 3 0.8 1.9 3.9 12.4 7.4
 4 0 0.1 0 1.1 0
Surgery 68.8 62 56.5 55.3 70.4 <0.005
Chemotherapy 49.1 58.7 64.4 60.5 63 <0.001