Prevalence and prognostic implications of psychological distress in patients with gastric cancer

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Table 3 Comparison of socio-demographic characteristics between the patients with psychological distress and those without psychological distress

	Patients without psychological distress		Patients with psychological distress
	N = 152	%	N = 77	%	P-value
Age					0.289
Mean (SD)	57 (13)		55 (12.7)
Gender					0.024
Male	118	77.6	49	63.6
Female	34	22.4	28	36.4
ECOG Performance					0.055
0	82	53.9	39	50.6
1	66	43.4	30	39
2–3	4	2.6	8	10.4
Smoking					0.056
Smoker	116	76.3	67	87
Non-Smoker	36	23.7	10	13
Marital status					0.247
Married	133	87.5	63	81.8
Unmarried	19	12.5	14	18.2
Educational status					0.021
≤ Middle school	27	17.8	24	31.2
≥ High school	125	82.2	53	68.8
Employment status					0.02
Employed	80	52.6	28	36.4
Unemployed	72	47.4	9	63.6
Disease stage at enrollment					0.008
1–3	97	63.8	35	45.5
4	55	36.2	42	54.5
Disease status at enrollment					0.072
Post-op status	64	42.1	23	29.9
Pre-op or metastatic	88	57.9	54	70.1

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